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The same cannot always be said of the product brewed by his competitors. Says Fred Murrell of the Treasury Department's Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division: "We've found them making it in hog pens—harder for an agent to sniff it out that way. Sometimes there are rotted varmints in the shine. Why, the basic commodity is so raunchy, the public hasn't the foggiest idea how bad the stuff really is." However, moonshining is becoming less and less of a problem. In 1959 Government agents "cut" (smashed up) 9,225 stills; the number smashed dwindled to 3,327 in 1971. As the old man quietly notes: "All the old generation has just about died out, and the young pull out. Maybe they work timber for a time, or maybe they mine. But them that can, goes." When they go, they leave behind the last of the silent, durable old men who make corn likker by the light of the moon.