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will not fuffer Sheep to graze in their Orchards 
much after the Middle of July . At Lammas 
they oblerve to cut up all the Grafs and Weeds 
they can, and lay it round the Roots of the 
Trees. Then they put in their Hogs to eat up 
all their blafted Fruit that lies on the Surface 
Earth, which they will foon do; after this the 
Orchard is well fecured from any Thing that 
may injure it. And when they find a good 
Quantity of Apples blown down, they fet 
People to pick them into large Heaps, and con- 
tinue fo doing, till the Apples on the Trees are 
very near ripe. Now this Fruit, being unripe, 
they call it Grafs-Fruit, which, as foon as well 
fweated in a Heap, they grind and make# Fa- 
mily Drink of, for fudaining them with a plea- 
fant Tipple, till better can be got; though I 
have made confiderable Quantities of this Sort, 
little inferior to the ripeft Cyder-Fruit: But 
then the Management of it requires great Care ; 
for at bed this Windfall Cyder will not keep 
good much longer than three Months. 
Lhe Southams Method of hoarding Cyder - 
apples under an open Cover . — This Method is 
praddifed by one of our mod famous Cy derifts, 
and reckoned to exceed all other Ways, becaufe 
by this the full Virtue of the Apple ispreferved, 
without receiving any ill Quality from the Air, 
from the Earth, nor from any other Incident ; and 
is performed by keeping them on a dry Stone or 
Brick, or earthen Floor, under a Cover, that fhould 
be lo contrived, that the Apples may have the 
Benefit 
