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Boys, at the price of one-third of a dollar per
day. The Hands gather peaches at the rate of one-hundred
gallons of peach-juice per day, each, which
yields seven gallons of fourth-proof brandy. [' "]

" 'A Man and a Horse bruises, and puts into
tubs for fermentation, enough per day for one-thousand
gallons of juice.  The peaches are bruised in
a mill, similar to the stone bark mills; but the
wheel is a wooden one, four feet in diameter,
and nine inches thick, runing [running] in a circular
trough eighteen inches wide, and twelve inches
deep.  The peach stones are not broken, nor any
use made of the kernel. [' "]

" 'After complete fermentation, which often
takes eight days, the juice is drawn through
a tap near the bottom, and distilled as cider
is.  When no more juice will run, the pomace
is pressed to get out what remains.' ["]

"Mr. Geddes observes that, notwithstanding
the expense of the ploughing and harrowings, &c.
the clear profits of the orchards of Mr Bayley have
frequently been upwards of twenty dollars an
acre. ["]

* * * *
"This culture seems more particularly adapted
to the great tract of mellow, level, sandy
land which stretches along the Atlantic, in
soils and hilly grounds; as the hardness of
the soil would increase the expense of, and
the soil of hills would be subject to waste, by
the heavy rains, when constantly under
the plough." - pp. 285, 286, and 287. - Quoted
from The Farmers Assistant. By Jno. Nicholson, Esq. of
Herkimer Co. N.Y. Published by Benjamin Warner, Philadelphia
and Richmond. 1820. ["]
        