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granted by the Excise to an application signed by six 

 ratepayers of the applicant's parish, the payment 

 being S3 3s if the liquor is to be drunk on the pre- 

 mises, £ 1 Is if it is not. These alterations have 

 necessarily added greatly to the consumption ; but 

 the increase of orchards during the last twenty years, 

 and the late productive seasons, have fully supplied 

 the demand. During the years 1833-4-5 the price 

 in the hands of the grower may be thus estimated : — 

 Of the best cider, from Is to Is 6d per gallon; 

 good, from lOd to Is per gallon ; family cider, used 

 by farmers and in public-houses, from 4d to lOd per 

 gallon ; c drink 5 for labourers, from 2^d to 6d per 

 gallon. These prices amply remunerated the farmer, 

 who, in many instances, might increase his profits by 

 a diminution of the cost of production. It cannot 

 certainly be supposed that small growers can go to 

 the expense of procuring much machinery ; neverthe- 

 less the extreme clumsiness of the present wasteful 

 system would fully warrant larger owners in erecting 

 suitable buildings and apparatus. It is true that 

 some improvements have been made, that larger mills 

 are used, that in the press an easily-worked iron screw 

 has been substituted for an awkward wooden one ; 

 but far more remains to be effected. If the mill was 

 placed upon a first floor, which could easily be done 

 in a building erected against a bank, or having an in- 

 clined plane, so that horses might enter at that height, 



