POMEROY ON FRUIT PLANTATIONS. lfil 
Wales. The price of the stone, worked at the quar¬ 
ries, is 20s. per foot; that is, a mill, the bed of which 
measures ten feet in diameter, costs 101.; the expense 
of setting up one of these dimensions, 4h or 5l.; the 
price of the hair-cloths for a press, to a mill of this 
size, is from 5s. to 6s. each; they measure about three 
feet six inches square, and last, with care, twenty years 
or more ; the mills, a hundred years and upwards. 
The superiority of the mills of this district over those 
generally used in Devonshire, has been already no¬ 
ticed ; and so very obvious are the advantages they 
possess, that it appears matter of much surprise, they 
should not have hitherto supplied the place of their 
very imperfect contrivance to break the fruit—this 
being the most the mills of that county can be said to 
do. The benefit derived to the liquor, from the rind 
and kernel, appears to have wholly escaped the obser¬ 
vation of the cyderists of that district, and is certainly 
the reason of their sending the fruit to the press so 
very imperfectly reduced as it is in their present 
practice. The hair-cloths employed here in the press, 
should also supersede the reed and straw used there. 
They are not only more convenient, but, on the whole, 
considerably cheaper ; the reed for a hogshead of 
63 gallons, costing, on an average, 6d. seldom less. 
There are other circumstances in which the fruit 
management of the two counties varies considerably. 
The following instances may possibly be found de¬ 
serving the attention of the planters of this.—The 
orchards of Devonshire are wholly appropriated to 
this produce ; no other crop, except now and then a 
little garden stuff, is ever expected from them. It is, 
as before observed, a general clause in their leases, that 
they shall not be stocked; and though horses, and 
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