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[Fie. 137.] 

 Scalding the 

 Stocks. 



for 

 Grape- 



This apparatus 



spreading out fourteen and a half inches at C, rises 

 thirty-two inches, to B. D 

 is the funnel for filling the 

 vessel; G, the steam-valve; 

 II, two stop-cocks, for boil- 

 ing water ; HH, two hooks, 

 through which two stakes 

 are slipped, to carry the ap- 

 paratus ; J is the fire-grate. 

 The grate and hooks are of 

 iron ; all the rest is made of copper, 

 is heated with coke. 

 Every quart of boil- 

 ing water taken out 

 is replaced by its 

 equivalent of cold 

 water. The water 

 does not cease boil- 

 ing, and keeps four 

 men at work. Two 

 thousand vines can 

 be scalded in a day. 



This mode of op- 

 erating gives very 

 good results, but, in 

 order that the suc- 

 cess may be entire, 

 the stakes must also 

 be scalded, or passed 

 through an oven. [FiG. 138.] Furnace, for Boiling 



3d. M. George Water in the Vineyard. 



Perrier, a wine-grower at Ay (Marne), has employed 



