She had left Petersburg with 450 hogsheads of tobacco and 12,000 staves. Planters filled large hogsheads with tobacco and conveyed them to inspection warehouses. It was producing 300 hogsheads of sugar and 182 puncheons of rum. All food and drink was stored in barrels known as "hogsheads". Planters would then fill large hogsheads with tobacco and convey them to inspection warehouses. It was just wide enough to accommodate standard hogsheads (barrels) across the floor. She was also carrying a cargo of of indigo and eight hogsheads of tobacco. Bermuda Hundred became a major shipping point for hogsheads of tobacco grown on plantations nearby. By 1879 he was brewing 565,000 hogsheads of stout. The "Friendship" was carrying two hogsheads (more than 120 gallons) of flavored mead called metheglin. In 1806 a total of 7000 hogsheads of pilchards were recorded taken from Mullion. In colonial times, the tobacco was then "prized" into hogsheads for transportation. Four hogsheads of 950 pounds were considered a ton for London shipment. Total production had reached 105,000 hogsheads by 1912. The company's initial output was seven hogsheads of beer weekly.