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they offered to lend me the still, and let me 

 find a man to work it, &c. or they would 

 work it for me ; but, from every informa- 

 tion I could obtain, I found that my peaches 

 would not more than pay the carriage to the 

 stills, and hardly that : and as to selling 

 them to the owners of the stills, they would 

 not give me so much for my fruit, as would 

 pay me for my trouble : nor will peaches 

 pay the farmer, to be given to hogs, if they 

 be not so situated that the hogs can run 

 where they are ; and that happened not to 

 be my case. 



As a striking instance of the little profit 

 of stills, Mr. O'Donnel, at Canton, had 

 planted an orchard, of great extent, of red 

 peaches, for the purpose of making peach- 

 brandy. The red peach is reckoned much 

 superior to any other for brandy. Although 

 Mr. O'Donnel's orchard had grown to bear 

 in great perfection, and he had a still and the 

 other necessary apparatus, the profit proved 

 so small, that he suffered the whole go to 

 waste, and his pigs to consume the produce ; 



