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cient to extract the virtue of the hops. When suffi- 

 ciently brewed, put it up warm into the cask, shaking 

 it well in order to mix it with the molasses. Then fill 

 it up with water quite to the bung, which must be left 

 open to allow it to work. You must be careful to keep 

 it constantly filled up with water whenever it works 

 over. When sufficiently wrought to be bottled, put 

 about a spoonful of molasses into each bottle. 



RULES TO BE OBSERVED REGARDING THE 

 IMPROVEMENT OF WASTE LANDS. 



In the cultivation of wastes, the following rules are 

 laid down by the most successful improvers. 



1. Not to put in practice any scheme of improve- 

 ment, without the fullest deliberation, nor without the 

 command of an adequate capital. 



2. Not to begin on too great a scale, nor until, by 

 experiment it be found, that the design is suitable to 

 the soil, situation and climate. 



3. When the intention is to cultivate peat-moss, not 

 to begin cropping, till at least one season after the 

 drains are completed, and the soil thoroughly reclaimed 

 from superfluous moisture. In flow or spongy mosses 

 a longer time is necessary, and it is desirable to ex- 

 pose the soil to the action of the atmosphere, during 

 the frosts of winter. 



4. To plough or delve peat-moss in autumn, that it 

 may be effectually exposed to the winter frost and 

 rains, and not to the summer's heat, which hardens it, 

 and prevents its decomposition. 



5. Whatever is done, to do it eff'ectually ; not to 



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