losely attended to. The store house, or cellar for
keeping whiskey in, ought to be some distance from the distillery, and
the liquor deposited, and all work necessary in it done by day, to avoid
all possible danger arising from candles or lamps, from which many
serious calamities have occurred. Suppose the cellar or place of deposit
to be entered at night by a person carrying a lamp or candle, and a
leaking cask takes his attention, in correcting the leak, he may set his
lamp on the ground covered with whiskey, or he may drop by chance one
drop of burning oil on a small stream of whiskey, which will communicate
like gun powder, and may cause an explosion, which may in all likelihood
destroy the stock on hand, the house, and the life of the
individual.--On this subject it is not necessary I should say much, as
every individual employed about a distillery must have some knowledge of
the value of life and property.

SECTION IX.

ARTICLE I.

_The duty of the owner of a Distillery._

The main and first object of the proprietor of a distillery, is gain or
profit--and the second, it is natural, should be the acquiring a
character or reputation for his liquor, and a desire to excel
neighboring distilleries--in both of which, neglect and sloth will
insure disappointment.

The active, cleanly, industrious and attentive proprietor uses the
following means.

First. He provides his distillery with good sound grain, hogsheads,
barrels, kegs, funnels, brooms, malt, hops, wood, &c. of all of which he
has in plenty, nicely handled, and in good order. He also provides an
hydrometer, thermometer, and particularly a barometer, duly observing
the instructions accompanying each, their utility and particular uses.

Secondly. He is careful that his distiller does his duty, of which he
can be assured only, by rising at four o'clock, winter and summer, to
see if the distiller is up and at his business, and that every thing is
going well--and to prepare every thing and article necessary--to attend
and see the hogs fed, and that the potale or slop be cold when given,
and that the cattle be slopped--that the stills are not burning, nor the
casks leaking, &c. &c. He observes the barometer, points out any changes
in the weather, and pays an unremitted attention, seeing that all things
are in perfect order, and enforcing any changes he may deem necessary.

On the other hand, indolence begets indolence--The proprietor who sleeps
till