Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales

Download or read book Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales written by New South Wales. Agriculture and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...at the bottom. This vessel is entirely closed at the upper part, but has three or four tubes; one carrying a tube with a cock, which can be put into communication with a carbonic acid apparatus; another is closed by a water syphon and has a cock; the third tube has also a cock. Finally the apparatus may be fitted with a pressure gauge, if constructed to stand a certain pressure of carbonic acid. The cylindrical part of the apparatus can be fitted with glasses and cocks, which are used for observing the clearness of the liquid; and also a thermometer to show the temperature. The apparatus can be made of either glazed cement, varnished wood, or tinned metal. All metallic parts should be covered with the purest tin, and the whole apparatus is placed in a special frame which will permit of all the operations described to be easily carried out. When the vessel has been well washed with boiling water, or is sterilised by steam, it is filled with carbonic acid gas; and afterwards with cider, which can be put in from the top or the bottom--the latter for preference--by pumping the air out at the top. When the vessel is perfectly full, there will be nothing left but cider and carbonic acid gas in it. If these instructions are followed, a clear sweet cider is obtained, which has retained all the fine bouquet of the fruit, and containing carbonic acid gas. This oider can be delivered in casks or bottled, and can be kept almost any length of time. It has no taste of the lees, nor the certain bitter taste which many ciders acquire at the end of the fermentation. It does not darken, because the must has not been in contact with the air, and the liquid remains at a very low temperature during fermentation. Semi-Arid America. Its Climate Compared With...