. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book II. MACHINERY FOR CIDER MAKING. 675 4136. PeiTi/Is manufactured on exactly the same principles as cider. The pears s
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. Book II. MACHINERY FOR CIDER MAKING. 675 4136. PeiTi/Is manufactured on exactly the same principles as cider. The pears should not be quite ripe, and the admixture of some wildings will add much to the sprightliness of the taste. " It is thought by some to resemble champagne more than gooseberry wine does; and it is said, when of the best quality, to have been at times sold instead of ; (Lardners Cyc Dom. Econ.) 4137. The produce of cider or perry by the acre can only be guessed at, by first ascer- taining the number of trees. From an orchard of trees in full bearing, half a hogshead of cider may, in seasons ordinarily favourable, be expected from the fruit of each tree. As the number of trees on the acre varies from ten to forty, the quantity of cider must vary in the same proportion, that is, from five to twenty hogsheads. Pear-trees, in equally good bearing, yield fully one third more liquor ; therefore, although the liquor extracted from pears sells at a lower price than that produced from apples, yet the value by the acre, when the number of trees is the same, is nearly on a par. Sect. VI. Machinery and Utensils necessary for Cider-making. 4138. The machinery of the common ciderist includes the mill-hovse, mill, press, cloth, vat, and cask, with their appurtenances. 4139. Marshal, in The Rural Economy of Glovcestershire, remarks, that a mill-house, on an orchard-farm, is as necessary as a barn. It is generally one end of an out-build- ing, or perhaps an open shed, under
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