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A Perilous Secret

CHAPTER V
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Now look at the retail price of beer: eighty per cent.

over its cost, and yet deleterious, which tells against your labor.

As an employer of labor, the main expense of a farm, you want beer to be slightly nourishing, and very inspiriting, not somniferous." So they set up a malt-house and a brew-house, and supplied all their own hands with genuine liquor on the truck system at a moderate but remunerative price, and the grains helped to feed their pigs.

Hope's principle was this: Sell no produce in its primitive form; if you change its form you make two profits.

Do you grow barley?
Malt it, and infuse it, and sell the liquor for two small profits, one on the grain, and one on the infusion.


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