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families that brew their own beer, and make a free use of it through
the summer are, in general, all healthy, and preserve their colour;
whilst their less fortunate neighbours, who do not use beer at all, are
devoured by fevers and intermittents. These facts will be less doubted,
when it is known that yest, properly administered, has been found
singularly successful in the cure of fevers. This the practice of the
Rev. Doctor Townsend, in England, places beyond all doubt, where he
states, that in fifty fever cases that occurred in his own parish,
(some of which were of the most malignant kind,) he only missed a cure
in two or three, by administering yest. Having considered the produce
of the brewery as it is connected with health, we may, with equal
propriety, say it is not less so with morals; and its encouragement and
extension, as an object of great national importance, cannot be too
strongly recommended, as the most natural and effectual remedy to the
too great use of ardent spirits, the baneful effects of which are too
generally known, and too extensively felt, to need any particular
description here. The farmer and the merchant will alike find their
account in encouraging and improving the produce of the brewery. The
farmer can raise no crop that will pay him better than hops; as, under
proper management, he may reasonably expect to clear, of a good year,
one hundred dollars per acre. Barley will also prove a good crop,
if proper attention be paid to seed, soil, and time of sowing. The
merchant will alike find his account in encouraging the brewery, from
the many advantages derivable from an extensive export of its produce
to the East and West Indies, South America, the Brazils, but
particularly to Russia, where good beer is in great demand; large
quantities are annually sent there from England, at a much higher rate,
it may be presumed, than we could afford to supply them from this
country. All these considerations united seem forcibly to recommend
giving the breweries of the United States every possible encouragement
and extension. Here, it is but justice to state, that the brewers of
New-York deserve much credit for the high improvement they have made in
the quality of their malt liquors within a few years, which seem to
justify the hope that they will continue these advances to excellence,
until they realise the opinion of Combrune and others, that it is
possible to produce a "_malt wine_."

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