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prcfs the Apples dry into the Form of a Cheefe. 
But in dead of Straw, you may have a Bafket 
or Crib well made, and put Straw round it in 
the Infide to preferve the t Pulp, which other- 
wife would either run through, in cafe the Wic- 
ker Paflages be wide, or cl\oak them, in cafe 
they be too narrow. Or a Hair Bag may be 
placed, furnished with Pumice in the Frame or 
Crib of a Screw Cyder- P.refs, for being fere wed 
down and their Juice forced well out, by which 
Confinement the Hair Bag is preferved from 
tearing, or barfting ; and it is according to this 
Method that moft private Families in particular 
who make Cyder follow, which Screw is turned 
round by the Iron Crow. Now here is a necef- 
fary Caution to be obferved.- — Don’t grind your 
Apples too fmall, left too much of their Pulp 
pafs away with the Cyder in preffing, a Fault 
that fome Apples are more fubjedt to than others, 
efpecially the over-ripe Sort, which, in this Con- 
dition, are of the Syrupy Kind, and which, 
being mixed with the Liquor, becomes a flying 
Lee, and makes it the more liable to become 
eager and four, unlefs timely prevented. For 
this R-eafon fome make Ufe of a Hair Sieve, 
and drain the Cyder through it, juft as the Pulp 
conies from the Fiefs, for keeping back any 
fuch grofs Pulp; and, being thus drained, the 
Cyder is put into the Cafk, but not filled, and 
leaving the Bang-hole open, for its being racked 
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off afterwards. 
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