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c When the season of gathering peaches commences, a 

 number of Hands are hired, chiefly Boys, at the price of 

 one third of a dollar per day. The Hands gather peaches 

 at the rate of one hundred gallons of peach-juice per day 3 

 each, which yields seven gallons of fourth-proof brandy. 



< A Mao and a Horse bruises, and puts into tubs for fer 

 mentation, enough per day for one thousand gallons of juice. 

 The peaches are bruised in a mill, similar to the stone bark- 

 mills; but the wheel is a wooden one, four feet in diameter 3 

 and nine inches thick, runing in a circular trough eighteen 

 inches wide, and twelve inches deep. The peachstones are 

 not broken, nor any use made of the kernal. 



After complete fermentation, which often takes eight 

 days, the juice is drawn through a tap near the bottomland 

 distiled as cider is. When no more juice will run, the 

 pomace is pressed to get out what remains.* 



Mr. Geddes observes that, notwithstanding the expense 

 of the ploughing^ and harrowings, See. the clear profits of 

 the orchards ot Mr Bayley have frequently been upwards 

 of twenty dollars an acre. 



It might be further observed, that the pomace, after the 

 juice is expressed, together with the stones, might be made 

 of considerable value, in feeding and fating Swine. 



This culture seems more particularly adapted to the great 

 tract of mellow, level, sandy land which stretches along the 

 Atlantic, in th6 Middle and Southern States, than for harder 

 soils, and hilly ground^ ; as the hardness of the soil would 

 increase the expense ot allage, and the soil of hills would 

 be subject to waste, by the heavy rains, when kept constant- 

 ly under the plough. 



We would merely observe, that planting a row of pump- 

 kins between each two rows of trees, would probably af- 

 ford a great additional profit ; as they could be cultivated 

 with merely the additional expense of hoeing the plants, 

 and applying a little gypsum, or other suitable manure, to 

 the hills. 



The rows of these, being each ten feet distant from the 

 rows of trees, would be but little injured by their shade. 

 Let the pumpkins be planted in hills, at the distance of 

 about four or five feet from each other. 



See f UMPKIN, See also, FRUIT-TREES, NURSERY, TRANS- , 



PLANTING, SCO. 



PEARTREE (Pyrus ) This tree will grow better on a 

 stiff clay, than most oiher fruit-trees; but the soils which 

 best suit the appietree are also most suitable for it. A scion 

 of this tree may be grafted on an appietree; but it does not 

 answer so well, as when grafted on a quince, for dwarf-fruit; 

 and a quince answers well to be grafted on a peartree. The 



