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supposing its produce had also been dibbled, instead of broad- 

 cast, on the 3d August, that from the second crop about the 

 middle of December, there might have been a return of 54675 

 pounds, equivalent to about 900 bushels, from not more than 

 three common sized wine glass full of seed grain : and this 

 within the short period of nine months, that is, from sowing the 

 first to the reaping of the second crop. 



Nothing can tend more to develope the capabilities of this 

 soil and climate, than investigations of this nature. Let these 

 deductions be carefully examined ; and every one may satisfy 

 himself whether or not they are consonant to fair reasoning, and 

 let it be considered that the first experiment, on which these 

 deductions are founded, was on land unmanured, and the natural 

 inference must be, that it is practicable at Sf. Helena (although 

 not in any country in Europe), by due care and attention, to 

 effect even a larger produce from barley wheat, than what has 

 been deduced from the line of argument I have pursued. 



I have peculiar satisfaction in adding, that the barley wheat 

 of the December crop has yielded an uncommonly sweet and 

 high flavoured malt, from which Mr. John Onions (who well 

 understands Shropshire brewing) has made some ale, equal in 

 quality to the best I ever tasted in that country. His success is 

 indeed the more surprising, as he laboured under the disadvan- 

 tages of malting upon a very small scale, and with a temporary 

 apparatus for drying. Wherefore from all that has been stated, 

 I trust it has been distinctly proved, that by means of the com- 

 mon practice of husbandry in England, the island breweries here 

 might be supplied (I will venture to say) with island malt, of a 

 fresher and superior qualit}', and at a much less expense, than 

 that which is imported from England. 



23d March, 1812. 



