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a family and sell for as much as double of an infe- 

 riour and miserable quality ? 



" ' Windfalls, bruised apples, and unripe ones, 

 should not by any means be mixed with those 

 which are choice ; for if they arc, it will be vain to 

 expect good cider. This bad fruit need not be 

 thrown away. It will make a cider of inferiour 

 quality. There is a diiference of opinion as to 

 sweating the apples in heaps, but they ail agree in 

 one maxim, that the fruit should be ground when it 

 is in the greatest perfection for eating. Almost all 

 apples require some time for ripening. And they 

 should be so separated as to have each sort ground 

 when it is perfectly ripe.' Complete Farmer's 

 Dictionary. 



" These are the hints given by French and Bri- 

 tish writers. Are thej not judicious? Are these 

 practices adopted with us? If not, why should they 

 not be? Cider in the cider counties of England is 

 not much dearer than with us. But the price is 

 regulated by the quality. Cider of good repute 

 will sell for three or four times as much as that 

 which is indifferent. It would soon be the case in 

 our country, if any of our spirited and intelligent 

 farmers would adopt these rules, or any others 

 calculated to make their cider equal to that of 

 Normandy or Great Britain, or of Newark, in New 

 Jersey. Let us not longer have the reproach so 

 often bestowed on us, that while our soil and cli- 

 mate are peculiarly adapted to the apple tree, 

 our cider is such, that foreigners, and even our own 

 citizens, who have been accustomed to better 

 liquors, cannot endure it. Hence the great con- 

 sumption of brandy and ardent spirits in our coun- 

 try towns. Furnish them a pleasant arid whole- 

 some beverage, and you will do more to abolish 

 this practice than you can do by any other means. 

 We have thus seen that a second method to pro- 



