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CHAPTER XIII. 
Of CLii Improvement of the Stone Trough — Comparison of the Stone Trough 
and the Mill with Cylinders--How to make small Cider. 
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The rind of apples, as it has been said before, is-aromatic, 
and the seeds are of a pleasant flavour; but it is impossible to 
grind either in common stone troughs which are made rough, 
so as to prevent ihe wheel from slidirigover the fruit; a cheap 
contrivance therefore has been discovered within these few 
^•ears to remedy this inconvenience: it is, by fixing in the in¬ 
side of the trough a circle of fellows (see Plate I.) from three 
to four feet in diameter, over which a trundle head works, 
communicating by the axle-tree with the mill stone. 
This construction contains great advantages:— 
ist. By allowing a sufficient polish to be given to the trough 
and the mill stone, so as to make it impossible for it to slide, 
it necessarily ex poses the rind and the kernel to their action. 
*ndly. It makes the operation of grinding the fruit more ex¬ 
peditious, at least by two-thirds, without increasing the labour 
of the horse.* 
3rdly. By means of re-grinding the cheese, from which the 
best cider has been pressed out, it ejiables the proprietor to 
extract from it a good family drink; so that-the quantity 
which lias produced three hogsheads, being steeped for twelve 
hours in a sufficient measure of water, may still yield one of 
Smalt ciderf washings, 
IF , man ■<■ ■* ***" ■' -— 
* The author has often had ground at his trough, which was put up on 
this plan, from seven to eight bushels of apples in less than a quarter of an 
hour. The expedition resulting from that admirable machine, is, however, 
to be considered, only as a secondary object, as the liquor is better, the 
■aore time is allowed to grinding the fruit. It is only in a strong year, and 
when the lateness of the season obliges one to have recourse tt> all sorts of 
means to accelerate the work, that its expedition becomes an object of par¬ 
ticular importance. 
f Phillips, in his poena on Cider, has a very appropriate passage on this 
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■-• Thou,.more wise, shall steep 
Thy husks in water, and again employ 
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