The Duty Of An Hired Distiller

Is to rise at four o'clock every morning. Wash and clean out the boiler,

fill her up with clean water, put fire under her, and to clean, fill and

put fire under the singling still--to collect and put in order for

mashing, his hogsheads--and as soon as the water is warm enough in the

boiler to begin mashing, which he ought to finish as early in the day as

possible; for when the mashing is done, he will have time to scald and
< r /> clean his vessels, to attend his doubling and singling still, to get in

wood for next day, and to make his stock yeast, if new yeast is wanting.

In short, the distiller ought to have his mashing finished by twelve

o'clock every day, to see and have every thing in the still house, under

his eye at the same time; but he ought never to attempt doing more than

one thing at once--a distiller ought never to be in a hurry, but always

busy. I have always remarked that the bustling unsteady distiller

attempts doing two or three things at once, and rarely ever has his

business in the same state of forwardness with the steady methodical

character.