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of wheat, as is fully proved in the manufacture of 

 starch and bread. 



There is, moreover, an old adage, that will not 

 always hold water. It has been said bad small 

 beer is better than none. I remember a poor coun- 

 try smith, in the starvation period of the late revo- 

 lutionary war, who, economically, brewed bad small 

 beer, and nearly scoured out the guts of himself and 

 his hammer-man. I saw them in the proper guise 

 of skeletons. They cried " give us a little good 

 beer, and the rest water." Farmers have often 

 weakened their harvest labourers, by filling them 

 with miserable small beer, whilst the latter have 

 taken every opportunity of drenching the land 

 with it. 



The labourer, whose wife is not fully employed, 

 and who has a cool place for his beer, may have 

 successive brewings of a peck of malt, the year 

 through, of strong and small beer ; and the recom- 

 mendation of such economical practice will be kind 

 and patriotic in my country, particularly my lady, 

 readers. A convenience to boil four or five gallons 

 of water, a tub or two, and two or three small casks, 

 will make the shift. In the country, skill will not 

 be wanting. 



UTENSILS, the London price of new. COPPER is 

 from seventeen to nineteen pence per Ib. A new 

 one, guage 15 gallons, including iron- work, will 

 cost between 48 and 50s. less in proportion for a 

 larger gauge. A MASH-TUB, six shillings per bushel, 

 for the number it will work. A TWENTY GALLON 

 cooler, 10 shillings. Piggin 2s. 6d. In general, the 



