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being in readiness ; begin to fill your reservoir at 

 day-light, that the water may have time to settle 

 before being required for use ; and this it will be 

 well to attend to during the whole of the manufac- 

 turing season ; it certainly being best to use clear 

 settled water when you can get it ; bearing in mind, 

 that as often as you perceive the bottom of the 

 reservoir dirty and covered with mud and sand, it will 

 be necessary to clean it. During the day, as the plant 

 comes in, measure and stack it up in the shade that 

 you may be able to load your steeper all at once in the 

 afternoon, so as to have all done, in this way, before 

 dark, taking care in filling the vats, that the water 

 will run freely out of the steepers into the beaters 

 when the pins are taken out, by forming a channel 

 with the plant at the bottom next to the wall. Much 

 has been said by experimentalists about placing the 

 plant in the steepers in particular ways, which, after 

 all, is not of material consequence, and is ill repaid 

 by the loss of time in attending to it. I repeat, stow 

 the vats so as to let the impregnated water run off 

 freely, keep the plant horizontally square as you fill up, 

 that the chatties may set square down upon it, and the 

 beams pin down into the same number hole in the 

 stanchions. Thus, if the first beam sets down to the 

 fourth hole from the top, the rest are to be pinned 

 down to the same number ; this will give the advantage 



