Practically all the necessary ing of beers, obtainable joes from cons coast, such sale being quite within the law. 'Then there are the malt and hop store and the home bottler's supply' store—money-making emporlums stocked with crocks, bottle, <aps, rubber tubing, malt syrup, om" sugar and all the parapher-alia which Prohibition agents are fully aware are patronized only by people interested in making home-Drews, who engage in legitimate trade in selling these articles to the public. Independent malt stores can de counted by the hundred in every jarge city. There are 800 in New 'York atate, 800 in New Jersey, 300 Ohig, 100 in Connecticut, 200 in Indiana, nnd yet their soles of matt' syrup pale in-insignificance when compared with that of a chain grocery stores throughout the country, one of which (according to a trade Journal) disposed of fitty carloads Jast year and is planning to sell To sell malt serv: or any other important ingredient, making of intoxicating liquor against the Inw, so the malt syrup manufactorera (there are over 100 of such concerns) straightway decided that Yheir industry is in the food and not the beverage business, fand have even received a ruling from the: Patent Office that malt' syrup in a food, Many carefully devised points of defence have enabled the malt stores to evade the grip of Prohibition officers, and the industry: grows rapidly in volume, and security. Production of malt syrip, in 192 was, according to a competent investigator, John T. Flynn, 438 million 'Ibs., and last year 450 million. "Allowing 10 per cent. for Baking and other uses," he says, "we have enough malt syrup to make 810,000,000 gallons, or almost 6 500,000,000 pint bottles of beer—and this' is greater output than the product of all. the 10,000 soft-drink makers in the U.S.A."
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