| Show easen eanes Brew breweries earles the english town of burton on trent is almost wholly given up to the manua facture of beer in fact the breweries are the town and the interstices between the breweries simply contain some dwelling houses the immense breweries of bass allsopp inde coope worthe worthington ton salt nunneley evershed 2 an and robinson are all there besides others of lesser note bass alone has three breweries there covering alto altol i gethen rothen a little over acres of ground bass used last year quarters of malt for fa brewing purposes if it be reckoned that an acre grows four quarters of barley acres were occupied in growing the malt which bass used of hops his consumption was ewt which engrossed about 2000 acres of hop growing country in malt tax and I 1 license duty bass paid the total brew of bass during the past year amounted to barrels each barrel containing thirty six gallons so that bass could have served more ihan thau than half the estimated number of the human race with a glass of beer per head from his brewing of one year throughout his burton premises bass owns over five miles of private railway runs five private locomotives and uses twenty six steam engines with a collective horsepower horse power of 41 06 bass employs in burton over 2000 persons and pays more than 2000 in weekly wages bass used last year tons of coal bass has in use butts hogsheads hog barrels and and kil derkins a stock of casks in all ill in store aud and scattered over the country exceeding half a million |
