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PARTr III-
NOTES ON TRADERS AND PROFITS OF TRADES,
A.
Abkar.—Distiller of country spirits.
All country spirits are made within a Government distillery, called abk?rl
godown by licensed distillers. The distiller (kashid dar) pays Government
Rs. 1 fee per annum for license to distil and Rs. 2 per mensem for license to
issue spirits. Government also levies one rupee still head duty on each gallon
of liquor which is issued from the godown.
Country spirit is made from mahua or from sJiira, which is first steeped in
large earthen jars buried up to the neck in the ground. In a jar are placed 30
seers of mahuas and on them is poured half a ghara of water. The quantity of
skira infused is a maund per jar and on this are poured five gharas of water and
three gharas of ghura (the refuse emptied out of the copper caldrons or degs used
in distilling). It is optional to the distiller to manufacture from shir a or mahuas t
but the bulk of country spirit is made from the latter. Shira ferments in
fifteen days in cold weather and in eight in hot weather. Mahua requires only
nine in the coldest weather and but five in the hottest.
Whether the stuff steeped in the jar (mathor) be shira or mahua the con-
tents of one jar suffice to supply one caldron (deg). The deg is covered with
an inverted earthen pan (ndnd) closed air tight and from their cover come two
worms (naicha) made of bambu through which the vapour pass< a down into two-
vessels called bhaphas which rest buried in water up to their necks in a hauz or
cistern placed at ground level.
The deg is emptied of the ghura or refuse as each batch (tao) of stuff is
distilled and when two batches have been distilled once (ekbdru)) the deposit of
both is thrown together into one deg and redistilled. This is called dodtasha and
all country spirit now issued is doatasha. In this way one deg is used nine times
in 27 hours—six times for eltbdra and three times for dodtasha liquor.
The expense of the distiller are 1| maunds of wood for each time a deg
is used. He pays also 2£ as. to the water contractor each time a deg is used for
ekbara distilling, and Rs. 3-14 per mensem for chokidar! and conservancy. Ho
requires two servants at Rs. 5 each per mensem and he expends Rs. 2 a month
in lighting his shed at night..
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NOTES ON TRADERS AND PROFITS OF TRADES,
A.
Abkar.—Distiller of country spirits.
All country spirits are made within a Government distillery, called abk?rl
godown by licensed distillers. The distiller (kashid dar) pays Government
Rs. 1 fee per annum for license to distil and Rs. 2 per mensem for license to
issue spirits. Government also levies one rupee still head duty on each gallon
of liquor which is issued from the godown.
Country spirit is made from mahua or from sJiira, which is first steeped in
large earthen jars buried up to the neck in the ground. In a jar are placed 30
seers of mahuas and on them is poured half a ghara of water. The quantity of
skira infused is a maund per jar and on this are poured five gharas of water and
three gharas of ghura (the refuse emptied out of the copper caldrons or degs used
in distilling). It is optional to the distiller to manufacture from shir a or mahuas t
but the bulk of country spirit is made from the latter. Shira ferments in
fifteen days in cold weather and in eight in hot weather. Mahua requires only
nine in the coldest weather and but five in the hottest.
Whether the stuff steeped in the jar (mathor) be shira or mahua the con-
tents of one jar suffice to supply one caldron (deg). The deg is covered with
an inverted earthen pan (ndnd) closed air tight and from their cover come two
worms (naicha) made of bambu through which the vapour pass< a down into two-
vessels called bhaphas which rest buried in water up to their necks in a hauz or
cistern placed at ground level.
The deg is emptied of the ghura or refuse as each batch (tao) of stuff is
distilled and when two batches have been distilled once (ekbdru)) the deposit of
both is thrown together into one deg and redistilled. This is called dodtasha and
all country spirit now issued is doatasha. In this way one deg is used nine times
in 27 hours—six times for eltbdra and three times for dodtasha liquor.
The expense of the distiller are 1| maunds of wood for each time a deg
is used. He pays also 2£ as. to the water contractor each time a deg is used for
ekbara distilling, and Rs. 3-14 per mensem for chokidar! and conservancy. Ho
requires two servants at Rs. 5 each per mensem and he expends Rs. 2 a month
in lighting his shed at night..
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