18 BULLETIN 182, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
DISTILLERIES ON THE LARGER ESTATES AND DOMAINS. 
A better understanding of the part which the distillery plays in 
the economics of the estate can no doubt be obtained from a few ex- 
amples. For this purpose data bearing on the agricultural situa- 
tion as a whole are here tabulated for three estates, two located in 
the sandy soil of the Mark Brandenburg, not far from Berlin, and 
the other in the Province of Silesia; in close proximity to soil suffi- 
ciently heavy for the cultivation of sugar beets. 
TABLE V.—Alcohol production on the larger estates of Germany. 
: Estates. 
Item. 
Dahlem. | Dahlewitz.| Neuguth.t 
Size ol estates ees ea eet estes So ise ek De ey eS Fee acres. . 875 1,375 22,812 
ATea On potatoesiCultivated: 5-2) ona aces teat ae ee eee ee do: =: 250 =: A00 3 312 
Average yield of potatoes per acre..........--..-522-2.2--2 bushels..| 187 to 213 266 267 
. 46, 666 
ES sald RansocacoSéeg shes SeSeaGceOnS Soe aca SosuSe do..--| to 53,333 100, 000 83, 333 
PU Sed stata (il Ney ee ee re ne ee ae ee do.-:: 13, 333 33, 000 4 205000 
(HES NGL OES Unt aoe ie a ai ba canerae Ae See ene dan cose a dos. =. 385. 695 581. 185 792. 525 
0 EAtION GBEEDICD) © ote. coe taee ean tee en a She are ater Sin aera Twofold. | 4 Twofold. Twofold. 
Pivontin vent? 7622 2.0). een or ce een pen cabin tee cases bushels. .| 10, 825. 892 6 12, 152. 05 
eed (Ho) lore ra Ts) HU (2s Lee ere oe ern Se oe ae See ee do. (7) (7) 36. 984. 5 
Cattle on the estate: 
OWS see ee eee oe ee os Neh ee ose oe ROE eee cine ssition eee 210 100 100 
COROT relate ee em ee eee era ape aes ei inne, See eta a Stave ee 28 40 50 
Walvessetates fe Seek ce eke een cto ee sO clea orem eens aes None Many 150 
1 Does not include forest. 
2 There is an equalacreage of forest land. Of the 2,812 acres, 2,175 acres are under the plow, the balance 
meadow, lake, and garden. 
3A larger area is cultivated w ith clover, lupine, and saradella; 60 acres with sugar beets, etc. 
4 Part of the time this distillery is expected to operate threefold. 
5 The amount allotted to the distillery in question. 
6 The ‘‘ Kontingent”’ for this distillery had not been decided definitely. 
7 These two distilleries being located near Berlin, the managers themselves did not know how much 
would be distilled. Berlin naturally influences the potato market in the neighborhood much more than 
the market is affected at the more distant estates. 
DISTILLERIES ON SMALL FARMS. 
The large majority of the stills in Germany are used, as are those in 
France, for the production of alcoholic beverages from the juice of 
grapes, apples, prunes, etc., and not for the manufacture of alcohol 
as such. Practically all of the distilleries enumerated in Table IV 
under the heading “ Other substances” are stills of this class. Their 
size and capacity can be judged, in large measure at least, by the an- 
nual output of beverage computed as absolute alcohol. Of the total 
58,050 stills of this class not less than 47,478 have an annual output 
of only about 13 gallons of absolute alcohol. In other words, they 
produce 25 gallons of brandy of approximately 50 per cent strength 
or about 35 gallons of brandy of approximately 33 per cent strength. 
These distilleries, or more correctly the domestic stills, have nothing 
to do with the production of alcohol as such, and even where there are 
small distilleries for such production of alcohol, they are not con- 
sidered even as a possible factor in the production of alcohol from 
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