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FOR RAISINS. 





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be more delicious. The common raifms muft be fcalded 

 the fame way, and about the fame time, and may be fprcad 

 upon hurdles, laid on ftraw on the ground, and bauled in 

 under fome fhed or covering, at night, before fun fet, and 

 brought out in the morning, and when dried put into 

 fmall cafks, fuch as raifins come in. The Malaga grape 

 is efteemed the fined for raifins, but as the northern colo- 

 nies, I mean the bread colonies, will not as yet produce 

 them, they being too tender and too late ripe, we may 

 however be fupplicd among ourfelves from the red Fron- 

 tiniac, which is a very rich fweet grape, is early ripe and 

 makes very good raifins. 



And now to conclude the whole, as my countrymen 

 are unacquainted with the utenfils that are neceflary for 

 making of wine, it is neceflary that I fay fomcthing on 

 that head, 



Firft then according to the fizc of your vineyard, you 

 muft have a number of cheap crooked knives, the flinpe 

 of pruning knives, but a little more bending, to cut off 

 the clufters from the vines; for pulling them off, is very 

 difficult, it is attended with great wafte of fruit, and is 

 very deftrudive to the vines; you muft alfo have a num« 

 ber of handy bafkets, to put the grapes into, as you cut 

 them, and alfo a large wicker balket or pannier, which is 

 of a long fquare form, lit to place on a good light hand^ 



barrow, with leather ftrops at each end to hang on the 

 fhoulders of two hardy boys, who may trot away with it 

 to the malh vat, as foon as it is full ; or elfe it may be car- 

 ried in a wheel-barrow, if hands are fcarce, or you may 

 have two panniers made fit to hang acrofs a horfe's back, 

 being made flat on one fide for that purpofe. Then you 

 will want a mafli vat big in proportion to your vineyard 

 and the age of it, this muft have a falfe bottom full of holes ' 

 made with a twenty-penny gimblet, but not larger, leaft 

 the grapes get into them, it muft lie upon a curve firmly 

 fixed, about fix inches above the true bottom; you will 

 alfo want a receiver, which is a pretty large tub, placed 



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