THE ALCOHOLIC VALUE OF A BUSHEL OF CORN
The '•Milling Wii'd." 17.' 1, g!v;s Ihe following curious Htvomant of the value of ff bushel of or when converted Info alcoholic beverages : — "Let our oorrsppondent, says the editor, trace a buahel, for Instance, from the fiald to tho drinker's gIBS3, Ho works at least two hours In raising a bushel of corn. Hs soils the buahel for I3 31 'on hla farm. He spends the la 3d for two drinks, thus parting for ever with lilh corn . " Now follow the oorn. It oosta Is 3 J, sod is turned into seventeen quarts of intoxicating drink. The diatlller receives Is. 81 a gallon for converting It into whisky. The oorn In its changed ahapa represents the original la 3d and 61 111 for tho distiller, making its value at this Btape 8s 3d. Then the government tax of 3a 8d a gallon adds 15s 51 to the value, swelling it to23s7d. The bushel of oorn now passes to j )b salesmen and wholesalers, and through thera to the retailers. By the time it haa reaohed the retailers It has been * reduoed ' in strength and: increased in quantity by the admixture of water and other more harmless substances, go that its measure has at least been doubled, and the corn when it begins to drop into the drinkers' glasses at the b«r, represents about eight and a half gallons of drink. " Al'dwlue sixty drinks to the gallon, the official bir average, the bushel of oorn will furnish two hundred aiid seventy drioke, which, at au average of 7_r.'l a drink, will take £8 2a from the pooue s of the consumers. This, added to tho 23 j 7d put Into the oorn up to the time of reaohing tbe jobber?, makes a total of £9 ss. Substraotlng the Is 3d which the farmer received for the corn, and the baUnce (£9 3* 94) will show the amaslng pro6tß made by those who do not till tha adltogrow the oorn, but who multiply infinitely by scientific means tha misohievoUß powers of the grain, and who from this hurtful multiplication reap easy, large, and reliable profits, The original prioe of tbe bushel of oorn ia contained one hundred and fifty-five times in the ultimate receipts fiom it. "In this way the enormous wasting power of aloohollo drink oan be easily understood." j
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1898, 21 July 1888, Page 3
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397THE ALCOHOLIC VALUE OF A BUSHEL OF CORN Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1898, 21 July 1888, Page 3
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