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Properties of Charcoal

This article, when fresh, possesses the property of taking lime and other saline matter from syrups and other aqueous solutions, especially this country, and it seems more than probable that, at no distant time, vinegar will be made here largely from wine. 1733. To Make Vinegar by the German, or Quick Method. Many methods have been invented to produce vinegar; but that known as the "German, or quick method," has superseded all others, and is now in general use in the United States. By this process (which is very simple) time and labor are both greatly abridged, and a very fine article is produced. The method will be found embodied in the five following receipts: 1734. How to Make a Vinegar Generator. The construction of a vinegar generator is very simple. A is a tub, 8 feet in height, 3 feet in diameter at the bottom, and 33 feet in diameter at the top, with a cover, E, of which one part, G, is movable, in order to permit the liquid to be poured in when necessary. Bis a shelf or false bottom perforated with a number of holes 1/6 of an inch in diameter, placed about 8 inches from the top of the generator, at which place a stout hoop must be nailed to supportit. When this false bottom is placed in the generator, it should organic ones, at the same time that it decolors be packed carefully on the sides with cotton them. As a decolorizer and deodorizer, ani- batting, so as to prevent the liquid from esmal charcoal (prepared from bones) is vastly caping at any place except through the holes. superior to vegetable charcoal. Charcoal The shelf or false bottom has also four 1/4 inch should be fresh burnt and fresh powdered and holes, in which are inserted 4 open reed tubes preserved from contact with the air. Unless as air vents, each having its ends projecting these precautions be observed it rapidly loses its valuable qualities. (See No. 1752.)