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To Make Vinegar Quickly

Take a cask or hogshead with the head out, and a faucet near the bottom; fill it with beech shavings prepared as in No. 1735; or, instead of shavings, the casks may be filled with corncobs or beech cobs or beech chips; over these lay a coffee it with fine shavings, to keep the heat in. Next throw some good vinegar on the shavings, and let it soak in for a few hours; then draw it off through the faucet and throw it on to the shavings again, repeating this until the shavings are thoroughly soured, and adding each time 1 quart of high wines to the vinegar before throwing it back on the shavings ; this addition prevents the vinegar from becoming flat by the absorption of the acid by the shavings. Then mix 1 galhigh wines, and 1 quart molasses, with 14 gallons river water; pour it upon the shavings ; draw it off and put it on the shavings again 2 or 3 times a day until sour. By using several casks, sufficient vineshelves a few inches apart, one above another. on which place small flat dishes of earthenware or wood; then fill these dishes with alcohol, and suspend over each, in small trays or capsules, a portion of the black powder of platina (see Platinum -Black); hang strips of porous paper in the case, with their bottom edges immersed in the spirit to promote evaporation. Set the apparatus in a light place at which purpose the sunshine will be found a temperature of from 68° to 86° Fahr., for convenient. In a short time the formation of vinegar will commence , and the condensed acid vapors will be seen trickling down the sides of the glass, and collecting at the bottom, whence it may be removed once or twice a day. We shall find that during this process, produced by the mutual action of the platina and the vapor of alcohol , there will be an increase of temperature , which will continue till all the oxygen contained in the air enclosed in the case is consumed , when the acetification will stop; the case must then be opened for a short time, to admit of a fresh supply of air, when the operation will commence again. facture of Vinegar. Dr. Artus has dis-

1742. Artus' Process for the Manuthe Manucovered a process for making vinegar from alcohol, which he says has proved entirely satisfactory.

There is a very general complaint that the oxidation of spirits of wine in the vinegar process is far from complete, and gar may be made at a time to put into barrels. that the results are not equal either in quality Sour ale, or the rinsings of sugar hogsheads, or quantity to what ought to be expected from may be poured on the shavings and turned the materials employed. His plan is as folinto good vinegar in this way. It is better for the fluid to be weak at first, adding the molasses or other material being converted into vinegar, by degrees during the successive drawings. By following this plan, the strength of the vinegar may be gradually increased to almost any degree. lows: Take ounce dry bichloride of pla tinum, and dissolve it in 5 pounds alcohol ; with this liquid moisten 3 pounds wood charcoal broken in pieces the size of a hazel-nut; heat these in a covered crucible, and afterwards put them in the bottom of a vinegar spongy state absorbs and condenses large vat. Here the platinum in its finely dividel quantities of oxygen from the air, by which alcohol is rapidly oxidized. When the charcoal has been in use for 5 weeks it should be again heated in a covered crucible..