i$i Of the Management and 



the uppermoft Hop will be as foon dry as the 

 lower ones, and all of them be equally dry'd. 

 When your Hops have lain about a Month 

 after drying, on a boarded Floor, to cool and 

 grow firm and tough, you are to proceed in 

 their Bagging: Firft, you are to make a 

 round or fquare Hole in an upper Floor, big 

 enough for a Man with Eafe to go up and 

 down, and to turn and wind himfelf about ^ 

 and it is generally fitted to the Mouth of 

 the Bag : Then tack a Hoop about the Mouth 

 of your Bag faft with Pack-thread and a Pack- 

 Needle, that it may fupport the Weight of 

 the Hops when full, and of the Perfon that 

 treads them : This done, let the Bag down 

 thro' the Hole, and the Hoop will reftabove^ 

 fo as to keep the Bag from Aiding wholly 

 thro. Into this Bag caft a few Hops, and be- 

 fore you go in to tread, let an Handful of the 

 Hops be ty'd at each lower Corner with a piece 

 of Pack-thread, to make as it were a Taffel, 

 whereby the Bag, when full, may the more 

 conveniently be lifted or remov'd : Then go 

 into the Bag, and tread the Hops on every 

 Side, another (till calling in a^ faft as you re- 

 quire, 'till it be full. When 'tis well trodden 

 and fiird let the Bag down, by unripping the 

 Loop at Top, and clofe the Mouth of the 

 Bag, filling the two upper Corners as you did 

 the lower: Hops thus bagg*d, and well 

 pack'd, will keep feveral Years in a dry Place, 

 taking Care that they receive no Injury by 

 Mice 5 for tho' thefe Vermine will not eat 



them, 



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