of leaves the worm at eight
gallons, then run till eleven gallons and so on in proportion, to the
larger or smaller quantity in your keg at the time of the ceasing of the
proof.

ART. III.

_Observations on the advantages of making strong and good Whiskey with
stalement, &c._

The distiller who makes whiskey for a market under the government of
inspection laws, too weak, sustains a loss of a cent for each degree it
may be under proof ... and the disadvantages are increased in proportion
to the extent of land carriage. If a distance of seventy miles, the
price of carriage per gallon will be about six cents, paying the same
price for weak or strong ... not only the disadvantage of paying for the
carriage of feints or water, but the loss in the casks, which tho' small
apparently at first view, yet if nicely attended to, will amount in the
course of the year to a sum of moment to every distiller or proprietor.
To convey my ideas, or render a more compleat exposition of my
impressions as to the actual loss on one waggon load (predicated on a
distance of seventy miles land carriage) of first proof whiskey, and
that nine degrees under proof. I give the following statement.

300 _gallons good first proof
whiskey at_ 50 _cents_, $ 150
_haling at six cents_, 18
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$ 132 00

300 _gallons whiskey nine
degrees under proof at_ 41
_cents_, $ 123
_haling_ 18
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$ 105 00
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difference $ 27 00

This difference of twenty-seven dollars in favor of the distiller, who
sends first proof whiskey, is not the only advantage, but he saves in
barrels or casks, what will contain fifty four gallons, nearly two
barrels; which together with the time saved, or gained in running good
whiskey only, of filling and measuring it out, loading, &c. will leave
an advantage of I presume, three dollars in each load. Or to verify
more satisfactorily, and I hope my readers will not think me too prolix,
as economy cannot be too much attended to in this business, I add a
statement predicated on a year's work, and on the foregoing principles:

_The distiller of weak whiskey, in twelve months,
or one year, distils at the rate of_ 100 _gallons
per week, or say