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with coal; then a woolen blanket, covered with
another layer of gravel; then fill up to within
eight inches of the
top
with coal. You may
thus have any number of casks, the contents
all passing by a tin tube, furnished with funnels
under each respective cask, into one c0111mon
receiver.
The
better
plan
is,
to
have two series of
casks, one above the other; a mixer placed
over the upper series of casks, the raw whis–
key passing slovvly, by means of a faucet and
pipes, into the upper series of casks; passing
from the upper series, through faucets, into the
lower series, and through the lower series of
casks into a common receiver; the whole to be
so regulated as to run slowly and evenly
through the rectifiers, passing into the receiver
in the same volume as out of the mixer; by so
doing, the coal remains good for a long time,
saving both trouble and expense.
vVhen two series of casks or rectifiers are
used, the upper rectifiers may be filled entirely
with coal (after having placed a woolen blan-