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ikied, would more readily bring from five to ten 

 dollars a barrel than it now does three. 



" Something too must be allowed for the addition, 

 to their own comfort and enjoyment. With three, 

 days labour of one man, forty barrels of cider may 

 be sufficiently attended to, racked one or more times, 

 the casks rinsed, and stummed with sulphur; then 

 the farmer would never have to resort to foreign 

 liquor to regale his friends. A good bottle of cider 

 is often equal to the best Champagne, the most po- 

 pular wine of France. 



44 It may be thought that the rules above extract- 

 ed are too numerous, and too complicated. We 

 shall show that they are essentially reducible to a 

 few, and yet they are mostly such as we are not in 

 the practice of adopting. If this publication shall 

 have the effect of inducing one publick spirited man 

 in each town, to adopt all or any of these recom- 

 mendations, our object will have been answered. 



" The rules may be reduced to the following, the 

 respective importance of which we shall notice as 

 we proceed. 



" First. ' Apple orchards ought to be planted with 

 the same kinds of fruit, or with fruits which ripen 

 as nearly together as possible.' 



"This, though valuable, is not among the most 

 important rules. It is, however, very important 

 that there should be no early summer or autumn 

 apples in the cider orchard. 



" Two or three trees near the house for early 

 fruit may not be amiss, but for cider they are gene- 

 rally lost and wasted. 



" Second rule. The apples, whenever gathered, 

 should be put for some time in piles, and before they 

 are pressed, should be sorted, and not only the rot- 

 ten ones separated, but those only ground together 

 which are of a uniform and equal degree of ripe- 

 ness. The first part of this rule is followed with 

 us ; the second is but too much neglected. 



