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Straw or Reed than is cat off with them, and 
let the Prefs down upon them. This Sort of 
Cutting and Prefling fhould be repeated three or 
four Times, according to the Quantity of Cyder 
to be made. In the next Place, it is what is 
pratftifed by fome, and this ufually too, juft be- 
fore the lafl: Cutting, when very little Cyder re- 
mains in the Mure, to make a good many 
Holes with an Iron Crow, and into them they 
pour two, three or more Pails of Water, which 
runs into the Holes, and difperfes itfelf into the 
whole Body of the Mure. This done, they 
make the lafl Cutting, and lay it up, and prefs 
it down as aforefaid ; and the Liquor that is 
prefled out at this la 11 Prefling is what we call 
Beveridge , which ferves very well for prefent 
drinking in the Family, and is a good pieafant 
L’qucr if not made too weak, and will keep 
well to the lafl:, without any Racking. 
‘The Way of furnijhing the Cyder -Prefs with 
Pumice ; by another Hand . — Who fays, that no 
Prefs exceeds the Screw* Prefs. ' On the Bottom 
of a large Screw Cyder-Prefs lay clean Wheat- 
Straw, and on that a Heap of grinded Apples, 
and fo with Wifps of Straw, by t willing it, and 
taking the Ends of the Bed of Straw, you go with 
it round the Heap of the bruifed Apples, which 
in this Manner is to be increafed, until, by wind- 
ing round the Straw, and Addition of Apples, 
you have raifed it two Foot high, more or lefs, 
as your Prefs will allow. Then with your 
Board, and Screw over it, you may lerew and 
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