supersede the use of any other throughout the
United States.

To assist in effecting this, the greatest attention should be paid to
cleanliness, which in a distillery is absolutely necessary, the want of
which admits of no excuse, where water is had without price.

If a distiller does not by a most industrious well-timed care and
attention, preserve every utensil perfectly sweet and clean, he may
expect, notwithstanding he has well attended to the other branches, but
indifferent whiskey and not much of it.

If, for instance, every article, or only one article in the composition
of yeast be sour or dirty, that one article will most assuredly injure
the whole; which being put into a hogshead of mashed grain, soon imparts
its acidity or filth to the whole mass, and of course will reduce the
quantity and quality of the spirit yielded from that hogshead.
Cleanliness in every matter and thing, in and about a distillery becomes
an indispensable requisite, without a strict observance of which the
undertaker will find the establishment unproductive and injurious to his
interest. Purity cannot exist without cleanliness. Cleanliness in the
human system will destroy an obstinate itch, of consequence, it is the
active handmaid of health and comfort, and without which, decency does
not exist.

Care is another important and necessary consideration, and a basis
necessary, on which to erect a distillery, in order to ensure it
productive of wealth and reputation. Care and industry will ensure
cleanliness; an eye of care must be extended to every thing, that
nothing be lost, that every thing be in its proper place and order, that
every thing be done in due time; the business must be well timed, and
time well economised, as it ranks in this, as in every other business
very high. Let a judicious attention be paid to care, cleanliness, and
industry, and when united with a competent knowledge of the different
branches of the distilling business, the character of a compleat
practical distiller is perfect.

With such a distiller, and a complete still-house, furnished with every
necessary utensil for carrying on the business--it cannot fail to prove
a very productive establishment, and present to the world, from the
materials of our own farms, a spirit as wholesome, and well flavored and
as healthy as any spirit whatever--the produce or yield of any country,
provided it be permitted to acquire the same age.

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