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pensable for the work, will show to our readers that the expenses to be 
met are really insignificant. 
List of Apparatus necessary for the Distillation of the Sorgho, in those 
countries where the Still Retorts are already in operation. 
1. A rasping mill, such as is used in the sugar beet factories, 
but supplied with stronger teeth, because of the stalks 
of the sorgho being harder SE AGS! SO B58 OO 
2. A centigrade thermometer - - - - - 60 
3. A saccharometer - - - - - - - - 70 
4. An alcohol meter” - - - - - - - 70 
About - - - $52 00 
Thus the principal expense will be confined to the rasping mill, of 
which the price is moderate, and within the reach of almost every one. 
For small cultivators, a mill at the price of thirty dollars to thirty- 
two dollars will be sufficient. 
Agricultural Distilleries. 
The still retorts, with which the cognac brandies are made, are, 
with trifling alterations, those which have been used for a hundred 
years past. They consume much fuel, and perform their work very 
slowly. Still, in spite of these defects, it must be that they offer, in 
practice, a real superiority as to the qualities of the brandies, since 
‘the merchants, the supreme judges in these matters, continue to prefer 
the products of these still retorts to those of more perfect apparatus. 
What contributes to maintain and perpetuate the existence of these 
alembics in the vine districts, is their simplicity and their low price~ 
advantages which coyer up all their defects. Thus, to these two cir- 
cumstances, the distillation has taken a wide range in the departments 
of which we speak. There is scarcely a single small operator making 
50 to 60 casks of wine who does not purchase a little still, with which 
he converts his wine into brandy. These circumstances have urged us 
