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quality far superior to that which is at preseut raised, and at a cost 

 sufficiently low (the distance to the nearest shipping port being only 

 110 mUes, 36 miles of which are performed by water) to admit of large 

 profits being reahzed by the growers, even when the price in England is 

 so low as 65 shillings a quarter. 



After giving an account of the cultivation of barley of which 5,433 

 acres are cultivated Capt. Ouchterlony proceeds thus. 



Before quitting the subject of barley, I cannot refrain from adverting 

 to one immediately connected with it, and which I deem of so much 

 importance, that although I am not sanguine in my hopes that Go- 

 vernment may be induced by any representation made by me to insti- 

 tute experimental proceedings, with a view to test the feasibihty of the 

 scheme, I still consider it my duty to place on record in this memoir, 

 the results of experiments which I have had favorable opportunities 

 of making, under the impression that a time must sooner or later come 

 when this, amongst many other valuable resources of these Hills, 

 will be fully developed and taken advantage of. 



I allude to the subject of fermented malt liquors which can be made 

 on the Neilgherries with the greatest facihty in all the details of the 

 process, and at a cost so trifling as to enable the commissariat to sup- 

 ply the European troops at the three stations more immediately in the 

 Vicinity of the Hills, viz.. Bangalore, Trichinopoly and Cannanore, with 

 both ale and porter, at a rate, calculated on an extreme estimate, not 

 exceeding 10 annas per imperial gallon delivered to the men from the 

 cask in the canteen, or 2i annas per quart, equivalent to 3^d. per pot. 



Independent of the importance, both in a moral and economic point 

 of view, of supplying to the troops a Uquor which, from its goodness 

 and cheapness, will induce the majority to prefer it to ardent spirits, 

 the subject becomes still more entitled to consideration from the ad- 

 vantages which must result from its successful issue, when the project- 

 ed measure for the permanent location of a regiment of European 

 troops on the Neilgherries shall be carried out : for as the chief item in 

 the estimate of cost is the carriage from the brewery to the station in 

 the plains, beer will be supplied to those resident on the spot at a great- 

 ly diminished rate. 



A very favorable opportunity will also be offered for bringing the 

 project into practical operation when a regiment is stationed on the 

 Hills, because amongst the men many brewers and malsters by trade 

 will no doubt be fo\md, and by the practical knowledge of these men 

 many difficulties in the details of the process which experimentalists 



