JB/540/135/002

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Two or three young men who might become usefull on such an expedition,
I could if you happen to meet with such who and were disposed to seek their fortune
in this country I could get them made Officers in my Batallion.

I believe I have before told you that in the making of malt spirits
they here by far the greatest quantity of farinaceous matter is unmalted
common rye flower. They mix at once for fermentation 80 ponds of
Rye flower and with 14 ponds of Rye Malt, and they pretend that more
spirit is produced from this mixture than if a greater proportion of malt
is used. I have not as yet had time to ascertain this by experiment: but
cannot help being persuaded that if the fermentation was carefully carried on Malt
without any flower should produce the greatest quantity of Spirit.

This distilling of Malt spirits on this estate produces to the Prince with tollerable
management a profit of 24,000 Rubles a year. From this you will
judge of the importance as well as probability of improvement. As to the
encouragement which would be given to any one who should be able at once to
direct a better process; I think pe it would be just he should have from 1/3 to 1/2
the quantity of Spirit made over and above the quantity at present made from
the same quantity of Rye. If such a man were here at present I would make
such an agreement on the part of the Prince with him. experiment
for a keeper of before
if

account of a General commanding officer

Jany 15.th Since I wrote the above I have found that I can have skrews
cut tolerably well by hand such as I can make shift with. If therefore it
should so happen that Notman has not left England do not detain him for this commission
only when you have an opportunity let me know by what sort of a machine these skrews

Identifier: | JB/540/135/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 540.
Date_1	1785-01-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	540	Main Headings
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Samuel Bentham	Watermarks
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