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into the Wood. Again, if a Calk, though 
fweet, is fet by after it is wafhed out with fcald- 
ing Water only, it will foon grow mouldy ; 
therefore, to keep Cyder Calks fweet, always 
obferve to wafh them out only with cold Water 
very clean as foon as the Cyder is drawn out, 
and then dry them very well before they are fet 
by. But, notwithftanding what I have thus 
wrote of preferving Cafks fweet by walking, it 
is a common Practice with our beft Southams 
Cyderifts, to take out the Heads of all our 
Cafks that has had Cyder in them before about 
Midfummer , and clean them as before men- 
tioned, left their In fide be any ways tainted. 
To Jcent a Cajk for the better five e tiling if, 
for preferring the Cyder found , end fweetning 
it. — There are feveral Ways of doing this 5 I 
fhall mention fome of them. If a Butt or Pipe, 
take four Ounces of Roll- Brim lion e, one Ounce 
of burnt Allum, two Ounces of clean Brandy, 
melt all together in an earthen Pipkin over a 
Chaffing-dilh of Coals, dip a long Piece of 
Canvas in it, and immediately fprinkle on the 
fame Powder of Nutmeg, Coriander, Anni- 
feeds and Cloves ; light the End ot the Rag, 
and let it burn in the Calk, by hanging k on a 
Piece of Wire; and, by prelling the wooden 
Bung on it lightly, it will by Degrees extingiufh 
the Flame,. But obferve, that unlefs the Calk 
is dry, the Rag will not burn. Next, obferve 
alfo to pour in your Cyder or Wine while the 
Smoak is in the Calk ; and, by thus doing, it 
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