RECEIPT BOOK. 813 



When sufficiently brewed, put it up warm into the 

 cask, shaking it well in order to mix it with the 

 molasses. Then till it up with water quite to the 

 bung, which must be left open to allow it to work. 

 You must be careful to keep it constantly filled up 

 with water whenever it works over. When suffi- 

 ciently wrought to be bottled., put about a spoonful 

 of molasses into each bottle. 



Rules to be observed regarding the improvement of 

 waste lands. 



In the cultivation of wastes, the following rules 

 are laid down by the most successful improvers. 



1 . Not to put in practice any scheme of improve- 

 ment, without the fullest deliberation, nor without 

 the command of an edequate capital. 



2 Not to begin on too great a scale, nor until, 

 by experiment it be found, that the design is suita- 

 ble to the soil, situation and climate. 



3. When the intention is to cultivate peat-moss, 

 not to begin cropping, till at least one season after 

 the drains are completed, and the soil thoroughly 

 reclaimed from superfluous moisture. In flow or 

 spongy mosses, a longer time is necessary, and it 

 is desirable to expose the soil to the action of the 

 atmosplierc, during the frosts of winter. 



4. To plough or delve peat-moss in autumn, 

 that it may be effectually exposed to the winter 

 frost and rains, and not to the summer's heat, 

 which hardens it, and prevents its decomposition. 



5. Whatever is done, to do it effectually', not to 

 think of laying on four acres, the. manure neces- 

 sary for three, nor the lime, chalk, earth, clay, 

 sand or gravel, upon two acres, that should be 

 employed in covering only one 



