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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 14.

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Drunkard Factories

DRUNKARD FACTORIES.—There are in the United States 1,217 distilleries, in which 5,240 persons are employed, and $8,507,574 capital is invested. They consume yearly 11,367,761 bushels of corn, 3,787,175 of barley, 2,143,927 of rye, 56,603 of oats, 526,841 of apples, 1,294 tons of hops, and 5,240 hogsheads of molasses. They manufacture 42,461,920 gallons of ale, 41,364,224 of whiskey and high wines, and 6,500,500 of rum, being about four gallons of liquor for every man, woman and child in the country.