18 BREWING. [NO. 



employed in the brewing ; seeing that there will be 

 pigs to eat the grains, and bread to be baked with 

 the yeast. The account will then stand thus : 



L. s. d. 



15 bushels of malt . . . 600 

 15 pounds of hops . . . 15 

 Wear of utensils . . . 10 



.7 5 



27. Here, then, is the sum of four pounds two shil- 

 lings and twopence saved every year. The utensils 

 for brewing are, a brass kettle, a mashing tub, cool- 

 ers, (for which washing tubs may serve,) a half 

 hogsnead, with one end taken out, for a tun tub, 

 about four nine-gallon casks, and a couple of eigh- 

 teen-gallon casks. This is an ample supply of 

 utensils, each of which will last, with proper care, 

 a good long lifetime or two, and the whole of which, 

 even if purchased new from the shop, will only ex- 

 ceed by a few shillings, if they exceed at all, the 

 amount of the saving, arising the very first year^ 

 from quitting; the troublesome and pernicious prac- 

 tice of drinking tea. The saving of each succeed- 

 ing year would, if you chose it, purchase a silver 

 mug to hold half a pint at least. However, the sa- 

 ving would naturally be applied to purposes more 

 conducive to the well-being and happiness of a 

 family. 



28. It is not, however, the mere saving to which 

 I look. This is, indeed, a matter of great import- 

 ance, whether we look at the amount itself, or at 

 the ultimate consequences of a judicious application 

 of it ; for four pounds make a great hole in a man's 

 wages for the year; and when we consider all the 

 advantages that would arise to a family of children 

 from having these four pounds, now so miserably 

 wasted, laid out upon their backs, in the shape of a de- 

 cent dress, it is impossible to look at this waste with- 

 out feelings of sorrow not wholly unmixed with 

 those of a harsher description. 



To convert these sums into United States' money, see page 16. 



