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fucceed, you may fuppofe he has been wanting in 
fome Part of them ; but, if it fucceeds, you gain- 
the Reputation of it. A young Southam 
Clergyman, my oppolite Neighbour, is a very 
experienced Man in this Affair; he has made 
feveral hundred Hoglheads in a'Seafon, and lived 
upon a Farm of his Father’s, where they made 
a hundred Hoglheads a Year, Their Method 
is this: 
They never mind nor regard what Sort of 
Apples they are, tho* they have many Sorts ; 
they fuffer their Apples to fall off* the Trees of 
themfelves, and once a Week they gather them 
into a Heap, the larger the better, and there let 
them fweat for a Fortnight or three Weeks, not 
calling away any one rotten Apple bed for Cy- 
der, and after the Apples are Squeezed at the 
Wring, (ever making a large Cheefe of Apples) 
they work it in large Keeves ; (but I had forgot 
to tell you, the Heaps of Apples are left in the 
Orchard under a Shed if they can, and in the 
Eye of the Sun, or in the open Air in the 
Want of one.) After the Cyder is put into the 
Keeve, in twenty-four or forty-eight Hours, a 
Scum or Froth will rife upon the Top, which 
they narrowly watch, and the Moment that 
breaks, they rack it for the firft Time, and 
after it is put in Calk, they watch it Night and 
Day, and when it begins to ling, which will 
be known by often applying the Ear to the 
Calk, they rack it again, and fo rack in clear 
Weather at Pleafure. The often Racking makes 
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