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Orange township, Essex county, New-Jersey ; com 

 prising about three fourths of tne township. Such 

 has been the abundance of apples in many of our east- 

 ern counties, that hogs and horses have been kept fat 

 on them till late in December: in the great scarcity 

 of provender produced by the severe drought of the 

 last summer, cattle have been fed on the pomace tak- 

 en into the fields, and spread on grass grounds, and 

 have been kept in good condition until the end of De- 

 cember. It is the opinion of some judicious men, 

 that as food for animals, the extraordinary abundance 

 of apples, has nearly compensated for the short crop 

 of corn in our great cider districts. These facts might 

 be supported by many others equally strong, to prove 

 the importance of this department of agriculture ; al- 

 though strictly considered, they do not come within 

 the limits I had originally prescribed for this volume, 

 they appeared to me too important in their nature, 

 and too closely connected with the subjects I have 

 discussed, to suffer me to pass them over without no- 

 tice. 



"A neighbour of mine, of great experience as a dis- 

 tiller of cider spirit, once in the month of August dis- 

 tilled at the rate of 16 quarts and 7 eighths from a 

 barrel of 30 gallons ; i. e. about one 7th of proof spir- 

 it. The usual quantity of spirit distilled from early 

 cider on an average, is 8 quarts from a barrel it has 

 been satisfactorily ascertained, that 1 4 quarts per bar- 

 rel is the usual quantity obtained, from the four most- 

 celebrated Newark ciders, viz. the Harrison, Grants!- 

 winkle, Campfield, and Poveshon," 



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