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SECTION XI. 



On naked Barley, or Barley Wheat — Report and Opinions of Warren 

 Hastings Esq. , and of Sir Hugh Inglis, on the Utility and Importance 

 of this valuable Corn — Singular Account of its Introduction at St. Helena. 



In this island, where the intemperate use of spirits had raged for 

 more tlian a century, and where now the breweries are successfully 

 established, and a change introduced, from which the most salu- 

 tary effects have already resulted, upon the character and conduct 

 of the garrison, the blacks, and others, by the substitution of 

 wholesome beer for an abominable and deleterious Indian spirit, 

 that had cost the Company more in the lives of their soldiers than 

 all the revenue supposed to have been derived from it — it is 

 undoubtedly of much importance, in the present pursuits in 

 agriculture, to be informed of the very best sort of barley for 

 malting. 



In the sixth volume, part 2, of the Communications to the 

 Board of Agriculture, that distinguished character, Warren Hast- 

 ings Esq. ; writes to the President of the Board, " that he has 

 cultivated naked barley, about twelve years ; having received 

 the first seeds of it from Mr. Pacey, an eminent farmer in Glou- 

 cestershire, under the name of black barley ; though, from its 

 resemblance to wheat, he would rather have called it barley 

 wheat; but he adopted the name of the head of the communica- 

 tion, out of deference to the Board of Agriculture. The onginal 

 stock was 53 grains, which were sown in the fruit garden, and 

 the first record of its produce was 10^^ busliels in 1799, which 

 had increased to 36 bushels in the following year, since which 



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