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Cf with rotten Dang, Mould, and a little Lime, 
€{ well blended together, and laid up in a Clamp 
44 lome Time before for this Purpofe. This, 
li he fays, makes them bear Fruit extraordina- 
44 rily. They do this but once in three Years; 
44 but were they to do it every Year, he fays, 
“ it would be much better. — Another Hereford - 
44 Jhire Man, named Elliot , who lives 
44 near Leomvifier , I alfo have been in Company 
44 with, who fays, if any one fells a Hogfhead 
44 of Cyder there, though it be to a private Fa- 
44 miiy for their own Drinking, as well as to the 
44 Publican, the King is entitled to feven Shillings 
44 Duty for that Hogfhead. Their Hogfhead, 
44 he fays, holds from fixty-four, to feventy, 
44 eighty, and an hundred and ten Gallons, for 
*• which laft they pay more; however, fome 
44 now and then they fave the Duty. Cyder, 
44 in a plentiful Year, is fold here for fix' $hil- 
44 lings a Hogfhead. A Man that rented a 
44 little Orchard, with a Hutt of a Houfe to it, 
44 at fifty Shillings a Year, one plentiful Year 
44 made ten Hogfheads of Cyder. Here, he 
4 4 fays, they put a Pint of raw whole Wheat 
44 into a Hogfhead cf rack’d Cyder for it to 
44 feed on, and to keep it from fouring, and it 
4 4 anfwers. Ginger- Bread, C?<r. he fays, is 
44 wrong for this Purpofe: And further fays, 
44 they raife their young Plantations of Apple- 
44 Trees in their Hop* Grounds; and that, 
44 when they tranfplant them, they dig a hoi- 
44 low Hole, and ram its Bottom Earth well 
44 with 
