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for 1 believe hardly any Liquor contra&s a 
greater Fermentation than this Sort. When 
the Calk is thus filled, leave the Bung-hole 
open, for the Bung muft not be put on till after 
the firft Racking, and even then but very light- 
ly, till the Fermentation is entirely over, which 
it will not be under a confiderable Time. The 
fooner the Cyder is racked from its firft Lees 
the better, becaufe fuch grofs Lees will not 
only caufe it to ferment too much, if not rack’d 
off in due Seafon, and confequently weaken the 
Cyder, but it will alfo cauie it to turn four, 
and when once this happens it is rarely reco- 
verable. To prevent this, try it frequently, by 
having a Pin or Peg of Wood made exadtly to 
follow a large Piercer forced into the Middle of 
the Calk’s Plead, or rather in the upper Part of 
it to take it out at Pleafure. By this it is eafy 
to know whether the Cyder is fine or not; and, 
to know it the better, try it every fix and thirty 
or eight and forty Hours, while it remains on 
its grofs Lees. Not but that it may fine in 
lefs than that Time, though it feldom happens 
to be fo, for it may require a Week, or Fort- 
night, or more ; and the Reafon of fuch Un- 
certainty is on Account of the Change of Wea- 
ther ; for when it is fine and clear, the Cyder 
will the fooner become clear ; and if it is not 
then rack’d off, and foul Weather fucceeds, the 
Fermentation will begin again, and the Cyder 
return to its former Groflhefs ; fo that if you 
ne°le& Racking when it firft becomes fine, it 
° n may 
