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will check the Fretting, fine it, and preferve it 
in a found Condition. By this Preparation of 
Ingredients, you may thus fcent a fmaller Cafk. 
Or take Brimftone, Arras Roots and Maftick, 
each a like Quantity, melt them together, and 
draw long, narrow Pieces of Canvas through it 5 
and, being lighted, put it into the Bung-hole. 
This will keep Cyder long, clear and good, and 
of a pleafantTafie; but better, if powder’d Cloves, 
or Nutmegs, or Ginger, or Cinnamon is added 
to them, But an cafier and cheaper Way is, to 
melt a Pennyworth of Brimftone, and dip a 
large Piece of Canvas in it, till the Brimftone 
is all lodged in the Rag, then tie the End of it 
to a Wire, and by it fufpend the Rag three 
Parts in four in the Veffel, light it, and let it 
burn till it is ready to fall into the Cafk, then 
remove it, and tun the Liquor immediately on 
the Smoak. But where the Cafk and Liquor 
is in right Order, I think there is not much 
Occafion for this. 
The Gathering and Hoarding cf Apples . 
The Southams Method of gathering Cyder - 
Apples. — This, my Correfpondent writes me, 
fhould not be done till the Apples are full ripe, 
which is known by their falling apace, and ge- 
nerally are of a yellowifh Colour, or when the 
Kernels turn black, which is commonly about 
Michaelmas , though feme require to hang till 
Ailkallonlide $ fuch as Megets, Redftreaks, and 
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