._

This is an unprofitable and unproductive mode of mashing, but there may
be some times when the distiller is out of rye, on account of the mill
being stopped, bad roads, bad weather, or some other cause; and to avoid
the necessity of feeding raw grain to the hogs or cattle, (presuming
every distillery to be depended on for supplying a stock of some kind,
and often as a great reliance for a large stock of cattle and hogs,) in
cold weather I have found it answer very well, but in warm weather it
will not do. Those who may be compelled then from the above causes, or
led to it by fancy, may try the following method. To one hogshead, put
twelve gallons boiling water, and one and an half bushels corn, stir it
well, then when your water boils, add twelve gallons more, (boiling
hot,) stir it well, and cover it close, until the still boils the third
time, then put in each hogshead, one quart of salt, and sixteen gallons
boiling water, stir it effectually, cover it close until you perceive it
nearly scalded enough, then put in two, or three gallons cold water, (as
you will find to answer best,) and two gallons malt, or more if it can
be spared--stir it well, then cover it for half an hour, then uncover
and stir it well, until cold enough to cool off.

ART. VII.

_To make four gallons from the bushel._

This is a method of mashing that I much approve of, and recommend to all
whiskey distillers to try it--it is easy in process, and is very little
more trouble than the common method, and may be done in every way of
mashing, as well with corn or rye, as also a mixture of each, for eight
months in the year; and for the other four is worth the trouble of
following. I do not mean to say that the quantity of four gallons can be
made at an average, in every distillery, with every sort of grain, and
water, or during every vicissitude of weather, and by every distiller,
but this far I will venture to say, that a still house that is kept in
complete order, with good water, grain well chopped, good malt, hops,
and above all good yeast; together with an apt, careful and industrious
distiller, cannot fail to produce at an average for eight months in the
year, three and three quarter gallons from the bushel at a moderate
calculation. I have known it sometimes produce four and an half gallons
to the bushel, for two or three days, and sometimes for as many weeks,
when perhaps, the third or fourth day, or week, it would scarcely yield
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