WINE PRESS. 



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Wine-Press, with Mill for crushing the Fruit. 



It is somewhat extraordinary, that in the family 

 manufacture, the wine-press is seldom if ever used, 

 though presses are sold by the London implement 

 makers, among whom "W. Morris, of Stones-End, 

 Borough, furnishes them at 21. each ; also a mill for 

 crushing the fruit, 12s. Now, it is scarcely proba- 

 ble, that small family wine-makers will choose to 

 incur such an expense as the former ; and it is thence 

 submitted whether or not a press on a smaller scale, 

 at about the price of one pound, might be contrived 

 to meet the exigence of the case. Even in some of 

 the foreign wine countries, the ancient practice of 

 treading still prevails. The small makers here con- 

 tinue to squeeze the fruits by hand, or wring it through 

 linen cloths. Among the larger manufacturers, the 

 practice of treading is adopted ; and one with whom I 

 have lately conversed assures me, that he causes his 

 fruit to be trodden with boots clean and proper for 

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