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Improved Mode of 



h,Jig. 101., where 

 it is only half an 

 inch deep, but it 

 increases in depth, 

 till it arrives at 

 the hole f mjigs. 

 100. and 101., 

 where it is an inch 

 deep. Fig. 101. 

 represents the bed 

 detached from the 

 press, to show 

 the form and 

 course of the 

 groove by which 

 the juice runs off. 

 When the fruit 

 has been crushed, 

 and has lain a 

 proper time, it 

 must be put into 

 a large hair sieve, 

 and when it has 

 drained sufficient- 

 ly, it must be laid 

 upon haircloths 

 (made of horse 

 hair) : each cloth 

 must be about a 

 yard and a half 

 long, by a yard 

 wide, and must be 

 carefully hemmed 

 at the ends, to 

 keep them from 

 ravelling. Lay a 

 cloth on a wide 

 board or table, 

 and lay as much 

 of the crushed 

 fruit in the centre 

 of it as you conveniently can ; then double first one side of the 

 cloth over the fruit, and afterwards the opposite side of the 

 cloth over the first; then double one end over that, and, 

 lastly, the other end over all. When this is done, place the 

 cloth containing the fruit on the middle of the bed of the 



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