The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-10-15


months, after it is made, which it would not
make a pig squeal to drink, we shall feel
no surprise that those who are in the habit
of using it for common beverage should
have distorted countenances, indicative OF
sour and unpleasant disposition.
To remedy the evil OF having falsehood
stamped on their foreheads, we recommend
to our agricultural friends to make better
cider. This may easily be done, and the
improvement of the countenance will not be
the only advantage the farmer will derive
from it: for we are told in the last New
York Spectator, that good cider will bring
from six to seven dollars per barrel In that
CITY How much better it would be to have
a pleasant and healthful liquor to drink
yourself, and get even two dollars barrel
I for what YOU do not want, than to go on IN
the old fashioned way of drinking vinegar
three or four months and drowning the
country with cider brandy?
| The following observations on making
cider. are fiom an address delivered by Mr..
M. Hopkins, and are well worthy the at
| tention of every farmer who owns an or
chard -
"During the three lamentations that
LIQUORS undergo, the yinous, the acid, and
the putrifacIive, it is only between the
y;nons and the acid that they can be drank,
/ The former of these is the first that takes
| place in cider, when it is said to work. 1t
/ is then thrown into commotlon. becomes tur-
/ bid, what is afterward to be sediment may,
! if it stand as it should, in tub. be seen TO
rise to the top. In barrels this is partially
thrown out, and hence the importance of
! keeping them full during the fermentation.
When this process is completed, the cider
becomes clear, brisk, palatable, and exhil-
| irating. The crust upon the top then cracks
and the sediment descends. Now this sedi-
ment is of the nature of yeast, having
great tendency to hasten the acid termen-
tation, and if there be much of it, the cider
will soon become sour and hard. We
should therefore, just as it begins to crack,
! which is the critical time, rack the cider,
and then, as the acidifying principle is IN
the air, that should, as much as possible, be
I excluded from it. By this simple process
capital cider may be had, worth twice as
much as the common cider. have known
it tried and the difference was wonderful.
If we would be very particular, we may
further clarity it by isng- glass or filtration,
A birthstone match is sometimes burnt IN
the cask, of the utility of which l cannot
speak, but for any method which does not
include the removal of the sediment and
exclusion of the air, l would give but little"
In addition to the above, it may be OBJ
served, that the smaller the cask in which
it is kept, the more likely is the cider to re-
main good; for the action of the air after
the cask is tapped, will in "a short time pro-
duce disagreeable taste. And hence the
peculiar excellence of bottled cider.
Were cider made az good as it can be,
there is no doubt but it would promote the
cause of temperance, as there would be less
occasion for WINE or ardent spirits. Blu:
were even the wines of France and Italy
made with as little care as is most of the
cider in New England, they would not be
! fit to drink and the now temperate inhab-
itants of wine districts would be very likely
to become drunkards.
| SCIENTIFIC. The scientific and the
! friends of science in tue United States, are
mostly aware that translation of Laplace's
"Mecanique celeste" with copious notes,
was sometime since completed by that en-
inent mathematician and philosopher of this
city, Dr. Bowditch In the year 1920, the
American Academy, DESTROYS of giving to
the public this rich treasure of science,
and at the same time, of honoring itself
by associati3g its own history with one
ofthe most profound scientific productions of
the age, proposed to DIR. Bowdtch to pub
lish his translation and notes, at the ex-
pense of the Academy. This proposal he
I declined, from motives which need only to
be understood to be honored, and which are
in admirable keeping with his known indie
pendence and elevation Of character. His
translation and notes, which were COM
menced in 1914 and finished in 1917, he
! has lately fully revised, and we are now
happy to be able to state, that he has made
arrangements to publish them, under his
own superintendent and at his own expense.
| The notes are about equal to the text, and
the translation and notes to the first part
will make two quarto volumes of about 800
pages each. 1t is proposed to give on each
| page the translation of the text, and beneath
/ the text the notes necessary to illustrate it.
! No variation will be made of the text, except
! the insertion ofnumbers for reference, which
of themselveswlll be great facility to the
student. 1t will probably take from two to
three years to complete the publication of the
two volumes, as it is intended to make them
most thoroughly accurate, and therefore to
proceed so leisurely as to enable Dr.. Bow
ditch personally to superintend the whole
publication. The two volumes, which will
be printed with newtype and on fine paper,
embrace the translation and notes of the
first part ofLaplace's work, which examines
and settles the abstract principles of celes-
tial mechanics. The translation and notes
of the second part, in three volumes, which
treats of the application of the principles
ascertained in the first part of the actual
Of MIA oto
ably be also given to the public at some
future day.
We have long desired that our country
might be honored by the publication Of this
profoundly scientific work, and that it might
he done dnrincr the life and undnr tho auo