ung-hole will admit, they should be scrubbed inside with a hard
brush. If they have acquired a musty scent, take out the heads, and let
them be well scrubbed with sand and fuller's earth. Then put in the head
again, and scald it well; throw in a piece of unslaked lime, and close
up the bung. When the cask has stood some time, rinse it well with cold
water, and it will then be fit for use. New casks likewise require
attention, for they are apt to give the liquor a bad taste, if they be
not well scalded and seasoned several days successively before they are
used; and old casks are apt to grow musty, if they stand any time out of
use. To prevent this, a cork should be put into every one of them as
soon as the cock or fosset is taken out; the vent and the bung-hole
must also be well closed. The best way to season new casks is to boil
two pecks of bran or malt dust in a copper of water, and pour it in hot;
then stop it up close, and let it stand two days. When the cask is
washed and dried, it will be fit for use.

BREWING MACHINE. Where a family usually consume ten gallons of beer, or
upwards, in a week, there is a Brewing Machine lately invented, which
will be found singularly convenient and advantageous, and comparatively
of little expense. The use of it in brewing curtails the labour,
shortens the time in which the operation may be performed, greatly
diminishes the quantity of fuel, and may be placed within very narrow
limits, in the house of any tradesman in the most crowded city. Eighteen
gallons of good beer may be brewed with this machine in the course of
six hours, or a larger quantity with a machine of proportionate
dimensions, in the same space of time. The process is so simple, that it
may be comprehended by any person of ordinary capacity, and once seeing
the operation performed will be sufficient. In the common mode of
brewing, the principal difficulty consists in ascertaining the degrees
of heat necessary to the production of good beer, without the use of a
thermometer; but in the use of this machine, this difficulty is
completely obviated.--The machine complete is represented by figure A;
and B, C, D, E, F, represent its several parts. B is the bottom, made of
strong sheet-iron, standing upon three legs. The hollow part of it
contains the fire, put in at a door, the latch of which appears in
front. The tube which projects upwards, is a stove pipe to carry off the
smoke; and the circular pan that is seen betwe