PGMEROT ON FRUIT PLANTATIONS. 15.9 
four feet from the ground, to admit levers, by which 
it is worked, and the utmost force required is obtained. 
A cast iron screw has been lately introduced instead 
of the wooden one—no inconsiderable improvement. 
The only defect complained of in the mills, is this— 
they do not always break the kernel sufficiently (it 
must certainly be very difficult to fix so small, hard, 
and slippery a part, when dispersed through large 
quantities of soft matter in machines of such dimen¬ 
sions), nor is it probable any improvement of the pre¬ 
sent simple, but excellent construction, can wholly ob¬ 
viate it. Nor do the different contrivances hitherto 
proposed seem likely to be very generally adopted. 
Such, however, is the price the more perfect liquors 
bear, as to make any moderate additional expense not 
of material consequence. In preparing these, picking 
the fruit, so as to separate that which has been da¬ 
maged, is particularly recommended by the first ma¬ 
nagers. When this is done, might not the person thus 
employed, with a circular scoop, take out the core of 
the apple with but little additional trouble ? The form 
of the instrument conceived under this idea, is as fol¬ 
lows: the cutting part of it cylindrical, open at both 
ends, half an inch or rather more in diameter, and 
about two inches long; from each side proceeds an 
upright piece, three inches, or something longer than 
the largest fruit, to give room for the core to fall out . 
between the top of the cylindrical part and the handle: 
this is formed by these two pieces meeting in the 
middle, and entering a cross piece of wood. It is con¬ 
ceived, that with little practice, this might be used 
with considerable .expedition by children, at very low 
wages: bone would be the most eligible material o 
make it of. Should metal be used, the inside of the 
cylinder 
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