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hardly iuffer any unripe or damaged Apples to 
be mixed with their better Sort. And hence it 
is that the niceft Cyderifls frequently make two 
Sorts of Cyder, the one fine, the other iuper- 
fine. The latter is commonly fold for a Crown 
more in a Hogfhead than the other, and fome- 
times three Half Crowns. 
Chap. VIII, 
Of Cyder-Troughs , and Cyder- Mills, See. 
T HE Want of a convenient Way of grind- 
ing Apples, or a Knowledge of the fame, 
is one chief Reafon why Cyder is not made in a 
more plentiful Manner than it is ; for, for Want of 
this, it is common even for thofe who can afford 
to have a wooden portable grinding Cyder- Mill 
made, to make ufe of a wooden or Stone Trough. 
If a wooden one, it is generally made by cutting 
a Tree into the hollow Shape of a Trough with 
a Carpenter’s long-handle Cutting-ax j and then 
in fuch a Trough they can hardly beat above 
half a Bufhel of Apples at a Time, nor thus 
beat above twenty or thirty Bufhels in one Day, 
though two Men work hard at it with their 
long-handle wooden Beaters, Peftle-like $ nor 
can they well beat the Apples in this Manner in 
an equal Mafh, for fome will remain in Bits, 
while others are beat to a Mafh 5 befides which, 
fome 
