skey, at
50 cents per gallon $ 5805 50

120 fat hogs, at 7 dolls. each 840
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$ 6645 50
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Clear profit, $ 2974 50
Profit of a common distillery 1148 10
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Balance in favor of a patent
distillery $ 1826 40
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To do the business of a patent distillery or to carry her on to
advantage, requires a little more capital to start with--but either the
patent or common distillery, when they have run two or three months,
managed by an attentive and brisk dealing man, will maintain, or keep
themselves agoing.

Where wood is scarce and money plenty, the patent distillery is
certainly to be recommended, indeed, in all cases, I would recommend it,
where the proprietor has money enough. It is by far the most profitable,
and will sooner or later become in general use in this country.

ART. III.

_Of Hogs._

Raising, feeding and fattening hogs on potale, a business pursued and
highly spoken of, but from my experience I have discovered that few good
pigs can be raised entirely on potale--as it has a tendency to gripe and
scour too much; but after they are weaned and a little used with slop,
they will thrive well.

If a hog in a cold morning comes running to a trough full of slop, that
is almost boiling, and is very hungry--their nature is so gluttonous &
voracious, that it will take several mouthfuls before it feels the
effects of the heat, and endangers the scalding of the mouth, throat and
entrails--and which may be followed by mortification and
death;--moreover, hot feeding is the cause of so many deaths, and
ill-looking unhealthy pigs, about some distilleries--which inconvenience
might be avoided by taking care to feed or fill the troughs before the
boiling slop is let out from the still.

A distiller cannot be too careful of his hogs--as with care, they will
be found the most productive stock he can raise--and without care
unproductive.

The offals of distilleries and mills cannot be more advantageously
appropriated than in raising of hogs--they are prolific, arrive at
maturity in a short period, always in demand. Pork generally sells for
more than beef, and the lard commands a higher price than tallow; of the
value of pork and every part