APPEis^Dix, Ivii 



the hogshead will require 3 bushels of malt and 72 lbs. of sugar. 

 Considering the Hill-malt to be 100 per cent, inferior to EngUsh malt, 

 I made use of 6 bushels of malt and 72 lbs. of sugar. 

 Estimate. 



6 bushels of barley, or 60 kolagums at 12 kolagums 

 perrupee, Bs. 



72 lbs. (3 maunds) of sugar, at 4 rvipees per maAind, . „ 



7 lbs. of hops, imported from England, „ 



Fuel for kiln drying malt, and boiling, „ 



Proportion of labour in steeping barley, turning malt, 



drawing water, brewing, &c ,, 



Sundries, ^^ 



Cartage to Bangalore (1 cask a load,) „ 



Total Eupees.. 37 8 



A hogshead shoidd run 60 gallons of clear beer, hence Rs 37.8 = 10 

 annas per imperial gallon, for the gross cost. 



This estimate might be reduced in many of its items, if a Goyem- 

 ment brewery were estabUshed here upon an extended scale. In the 

 first place, all the yeast produced would meet with a ready sale in Oota- 

 camund for the bakeries, which are now dependent on the low country 

 for a supply of toddy, with which bread is fermented all over India, 

 and which, having to travel a considerable distance before it reaches 

 the settlement, is often found to have passed into the stage of acetous 

 fermentation, rendering it either unfit to make bread with, or causing 

 the bread to have an unwholesome and bad taste. A large quantity of 

 yeast would also be daily required for the bake-houses of the European 

 regiment located here. The estimate for hops, at 1 Rupee per pound 

 delivered here, is far too high, as, if sent out by the Home Government 

 in quantity, they coidd not possibly stand in, at the brewery, at so high 

 a rate ; and the cost of laboiu* would be diminished if a large quantity 

 of beer were brewed daily. 



I would further beg leave to dwell, upon the importance to this dis- 

 trict, of the estabhshment of such a manufacture, upon a large scale, in a 

 Revenue point of view, which, from the great demand it would create 

 for barley, would soon lead to the reclamation of the greater part of the 

 waste but rich lands, which are now left untouched, through want of 

 stimulus to the industry of the Hill tribes, and also, as it appears to 

 me, in some measure, to the Avant of hands to till them — a deficiency 

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