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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67081	The second parts of Systema agriculturæ, or, The mystery of husbandry. And Vinetum Britannicum, or, A treatise of cider. Wherein are contained many select and curious observations and novel experiments relating to husbandry and fruit-trees. With the best and most natural rules and methods for the making of cider, and other English-liquors. To which is added, an essay towards the discovery of the original of fountains and springs. / by J.W. ...	Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698.; Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698. Systema agriculturæ the mystery of husbandry discovered.; Worlidge, John, fl. 1660-1698. Vinetum Brittanicum, or, A treatise of cider.	1689 (1689)	Wing W3597A; Wing W3598_VARIANT; ESTC R39146	80,665	246

or made by adding Oaten Malt or Oates mixed with other Malt whereof is that Drink made which they call Oat Ale All which is unwholesome causing Obstructions and great Windiness in the narrow passages of the Blood in Humane Bodies The like doth Bread or any other matter made of Wheat unfermented or that hath undergone some degree of Germination before it hath been at the Mill whereby a due fermentation is impeded The reason of this my present discourse on Malt or fermentation of Corn or Grain is not only to forewarn all good Husbandmen that they be cautious in eating or drinking any thing made of unfermented Corn or Grain unless it be otherwise prepared by due coction or good additions according to the Culinary Art. But also to excite such that have Art Skill and opportunity to make use of this Art of fermentation on several other Grains Seeds c. for the extracting their spirits or better parts ever varying the method of fermentation according to the nature of the Grain or Seed to be fermented for some Seeds require much longer time to be imbibed than doth Barley ere their Viscous matter be relaxed and so nevertheless retain their Spirits even to Vegetation as the Seeds of several Vegetables that have undergone all the operations that Barley hath done in Malting yet will germinate and encrease when sown as if they had never been so ordered the like will some Grains of Barley that have not been fully ripened and all Barley doth require more or less time and skill to malt it according to the different Seasons All which deserve the enquiries into and considerations of the Ingenious Note that the viscous matter that preserves the Vegetable Spirit in all Seeds being relaxed by Fermentation such Seed tumefy and are thereby made more easie in parting with their Spirits For Barley when it is malted occupieth more room than it did before although it be diminished in its weight by the loss of its dust the Come And Meal when it is fermented for Bread encreaseth in Bulk but without addition or diminution of its weight So that fermentation is no other than a relaxation of those Bonds that preserve the vegetating Seed for production and that prohibit the expence or wast of its Spirits till those Bonds are relaxed or broken I have this to add to what hath been Of Hemp and Flax. already treated on concerning these subjects To wit That the Seeds of Hemp Benefit of Hemp-seed being so desirable by Birds and seeing that Pigeons in the Hemp-Countries about Lincolnshire c. are so large and fat It may probably be a considerable addition to the Improvement of Lands by sowing of Hemp to convert the use of its Seed to the feeding of Poultry and other Fowl for it is a great Crop of Seed that an Acre of Hemp will yield besides the benefit of the Stalks And in case such Seeds should give the Flesh of Fowl fatted therewith some ill Tast as hath been reported yet that would be soon altered by feeding the Fowl 2 or 3 days before they are killed with other Grain for such a Tast or savour contracted by the Food is soon altered and made connatural by the heat of such quick digesters But the great Improvements that are to be made of Hemp and Flax are by converting the same into Linnen Paper or Cordage A Discription of the Engine for dressing Hemp Flax. a a a a b b c c d e e f f g Let there be two upright Posts fixed The description of the Engine for dressing of Hemp and Flax. as a a a a. at a convenient height and thickness and about 3 foot apart more or less as you please let there be 2 solid Rolls of Beech Elme or rather some harder Wood of about 5 6 or 7 inches diameter and as long as is the distance between the 2 Posts as at b b. let these Rolls be toothed with 8 10 or 12 Teeth as you please equidistant that they may exactly shut the one in the other as by the Ichnographic discription of the ends of them appears at c c. The lower Roll must run in fixed Sockets with a handle at one end thereof to turn the same as at d. but the upper Roll must run in 2 moveable Sockets made in 2 pieces of Wood that may side up and down as at e e. within the 2 upright Posts Then let a Spring be made of Eugh Ash or other springing Wood or of Steel or Iron well tempered each end to rest on the siding pieces as at f f. which Spring may receive its pressure from a Skrew at g. By the force of which Spring the upper Roll may be depressed on the lower so strongly that Hemp or Flax may by being drawn through between them be far better and easier broken or mollified than by the ordinary Heckling This Engine may be made with Handles at each end for 2 to turn and then 4 5 or 6 may feed it and take it away on the other side to dispose of it in order And the work may be often repeated as there is cause And the Spring every time harder depress'd by the Screw that as in the common way the Flax is heckled three times and every time in a finer Heckle so here it may be every time harder wrought through the tooth'd Rolls and often working it through the Rolls will make it exceeding fine An Ingenious Workman will soon make this an useful and profitable Machine although at first it may not seem to be so for any thing that is new requires patience with some damage to make it perfect as every Mechanic that undertakes a new piece of Work can tell Therefore this requires a willing as well as an Ingenious Workman to make it compleat Another Objection is that our Linnen is not so white as foreign Which is answered as the former That often watering of it will make it whiter as every Whitster can tell So that if Hemp or Flax be watered and beaten it will become the more subtile and white It is observed that in the making of the finest Linnen beyond the Seas several years are required for the preparing or reducing the Flax to such a fineness and whiteness which here we despair of performing unless we can accelerate the same by the said Engine For if often washing of Linnen will make it white and much beating and heckling it make it soft or subtile It s very probable that by watering or washing and often working it in this Engine it may be made soft fine and white For the difference between corse Linnen and fine seems to be in the softness and fineness of the Hemp or Flax which is more easily spun into a small Thread and the whiteness of it to which whiteness it ought to be reduced before it be Spun or Woven else it will be very difficultly whitened after without prejudice to the Cloath if very fine For we may observe that