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SPECIAL
DISTILLATIONS.
167
Apprehension
of
inconvenience
resulting
from
the
state
of
the
wine.
It
is
evident
that
nothing
but
some
considerations
de-
pending
on
the
fitness
of
the
workmen
could
now
prevent
the
distiller
from
making
use
of
improved
apparatus,
which
always
requires
more
intelligence
and
more
care
than
that
which
is
less
complicated.
There
is
no
doubt,
though,
but
that
in
all
cases
in
which
the
spirits
are
to
be
drawn
off
at
a
high
strength,
or
to
be
corrected
by
rectification,
the
distiller
would
find
an
advantage
in
being
at
the
expense
of
employing
intel-
ligent
workmen
to
conduct
the
process
of
a
better
machine.
The
economy
then
in
combustibles
and
in
labour
ac-
quired
by
such
machine
would
amply
indemnify
the
manu-
facturer
for
the
higher
price
occasioned
by
the
employment
of
more
careful
and
intelligent
workmen,
particularly
if
the
distillery
is
of
some
extent.
In
other
cases,
where
proof
goods
are
only
made,
where
the
wine
operated
upon
is
rich,
and
where
taste
and
fla-
vour
are
not
to
be
corrected
by
rectification,
in
such
cases
it
might
be
possible
that
the
distiller
would
not
find
the
same
advantage
in
making
use
of
improved
apparatus,
particularly
in
establishments
so
small
as
not
to
admit
of
the
system
of
continuity;
then
a
simple
condensing
apparatus
would
be
sufficient
:
besides,
these
discussions
belong
more
immediately
to
the
distiller.
The
manufac-
turer
having
once
determined
upon
the
choice
of
the
ap-
paratus
he
means
to use,
he
has
only
to
combine
his
operations,
so
as
to
give
to
his
produce
all
the
qualities
re-
quisite
for
consumption,
and
to
regulate
his
way
of
work-
ing
according
to
the
state
of
the
wine
he
operates
upon.