_Another_.


Or to make your Cask more pleasant, you may use the Vintners Way thus:
Take four Ounces of Stone Brimstone, one Ounce of burnt Alum, and two
Ounces of Brandy; melt all these in an Earthen Pan over hot Coals, and dip
therein a piece of new Canvas, and instantly sprinkle thereon the Powders
of Nutmegs, Cloves, Coriander and Anise-seeds: This Canvas set on fire,
and let it burn hanging in the Cask fastened at the end with the wooden
Bung, so that no Smoke comes out.


_For a Musty Cask_.


Boil some Pepper in water and fill the Cask with it scalding hot.


_For a very stinking Vessel_.


The last Remedy is the Coopers taking out one of the Heads of the Cask to
scrape the inside, or new-shave the Staves, and is the surest way of all
others, if it is fired afterwards within-side a small matter, as the
Cooper knows how.

These several Methods may be made use of at Discretion, and will be of
great Service where they are wanted. The sooner also a Remedy is applied,