j2 On the Hushandry of Ayrshire. 1 eh 



1. Bear of 361b. per bushel ; the malt of 6 bushels, yieldecj 



5.7 gallons. 



2. Bear of 421b. per bushel, or middling bear, ditto yielded 



8.1 gallons. 



3. Best bear of 461b. malt, yielded 11 jgallons ; bear, at this 



rate, 11.66 gallons. 



4. Scotch barley of 48 lb. malt, yielded 12.3 gallons ; barley, 



at this rate, 14. gallons. 



5. English barley of 51 lb. malt, yielded 14' gallons ; barley, 



at this rate, 15.75 gallons. 



6. Ditto, three bushels of malt yielded 8,} gallons \ a boll of 



barley would yield i8.66 gallons. 



N. B. Experiment, No. 5, lost a quantity of the wash, by 

 overflowing, and the malt was ground only on a steel mill, 

 and not so much diluted as the 6th or last experiment. 



From the above experiments it appears that weak Scotch 

 bear is to good Englisli barley very nearly as i to 3, or at 

 the utmost as 2 to 5, from the medium of the two last expe- 

 riments ; that middling bear or big is to English barley as 1 

 to 2, or at the utmost as 3 to 5 ; that the best bear or big is 

 10 the same as 2 to 3 very nearly ; and that Scotch barley is 

 to English barley w^eigliing 3 pounds more per busliel, a^ 

 3 to 4. 



If no other attenuator than yeast had been applied, the su- 

 periority of English barley over all the other species of grain 

 would have been still greater. But, as the writer of this paper 

 had discovered a mode of completely attenuating t]ic wash ex- 

 tracted from even the weakest grain, he thought it but fair 

 and candid to treat them all in tlic same manner by mixinq- a 

 proportion of roots as above mentioned, at the rate of one 

 bushel of root, to every 12 of grain, although it is obvious 

 that this gave a small advantage to the grain which was in- 

 ferior in point of quality. 



On the whole, it is doing no more than justice, to restore 

 the former proportions of taxation that subsisted so long be- 

 tween English and Scotch malt. Indeed, it is well known 

 that the bv^ar or big of the northern counties, could not afforci 

 to pay half the tax imposed upon English malt in many lale 

 seasons, and that when any officer of the Excise, particularly, 

 when a superior olliccr or supervisor, who was -a native of the. 

 south of Scotland, came to a district or division in this county, 

 he always charged the malt tax very reasonably in the country 

 districts, on accoi^nt of the g»-eat inferiority of the grain. The 



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