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GRAPE CULTURE AND WINE-MAKING. 



Fig. ir 



Fig. IC. 



however, being but one sixth part 

 of the inner height of the barrel) ; 

 n is an orifice closed by a bung, 

 in order to allow a hand to pass 

 through to get hold of the bot- 

 tom a, either to take it out or re- 

 place it. At there is a proof- 

 tube, in equal height to the upper 

 level of the Fig. i4. 



lid. Fig. U 

 shows the 



Fig. 13. 



same on a 



larger scale : j5 is a faucet-shaped hollow tube, with a tenon, g. 

 Into a second opening of the lid c a perforated 

 bung is fixed (r), into which the two-shanked fer- 

 mentation-tube E (shown in Fir/. 13 enlarged) is 

 I inserted, with its longer part, s, having the shorter 

 one, i, dipped into the vessel u, filled with water; 

 V is a small iron rod soldered to the angle of the 

 part 5 of the tube, serving the purpose, if necessa- 

 ry, to drive by blows the tube faster into the bung r; iv is the 

 extraction-tube, of strong sheet iron, one and a quarter inches 

 wide, and furnished with a funnel ten inches wide, which enters 

 the extraction-barrel with its angle-shaped end below the sink- 

 bottom A, and serves to extract the ley of the husks in a shorter 

 time, and more efficiently than it could be done without it ; y is 

 an iron rod like v. The funnel x contains inside a sieve with 

 many small holes, to keep back the particles of the husks. Z is a 

 wooden faucet ; F is the support of the extraction-barrel, twelve 

 to fourteen inches high. 



We will now proceed to the manner of extracting itself The 

 first business would be to place the barrels so that the bung-holes 



