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where cider, under any management, is 

 but a fecondary objed:, the bufinefs of 

 making it interferes with the more im- 

 portant concerns of hufbandry ; even the 

 bufmefs of harveft, and ftill more the clean- 

 ing of turneps,are too frequently neglecfied, 

 to give place to fruit pickings and the 

 breaking and preiTmg are, afterwards, not 

 lefs inimical to the faving of potatoes and 

 the fowing of wheat -, which, as has been 

 Ihewn, requires all the hand labour the 

 farm can afford. Befides, the " dreffing" 

 which ought to be applied to the arable 

 lands, it is to be feared, is too frequently 

 beflowed on the Orchard Grounds — for 

 ** how can dreffing be beflowed to fo good 

 a purpofe." 



Again, the drunkennefs, difTolutenefs of 

 manners, and the difhonefly of the lower 

 clafs might well be referred, in whole or in 

 great part, to the baleful efiedlis of cider ; 

 which workmen of every defcription make 

 a merit of flealing : and, what is noticeable, 

 the effects of cider, on working people, 

 appears to be different from that of malt 

 hquor. Give a Kentifh man a pint of ale, 



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