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THE BEST MALTING BARLEY. 
In all our experiments, both by cross breeding and continuous selection, our aim lias always been to 
produce and offer to our customers year by year an ideal sample, as the best and only the best is good enough 
for either sowing or malting. 
Cartels Prize Prolific and (loldthorjie Barleys are the best in the world for either purpose, because in no 
other stock has such care and skill been exercised so as to develop and perpetuate all the desirable 
characteristics. Personal suiiervision in every department of our business makes it possible for us to say that all 
our Barleys are of the very best quality-high vitality and high maturation, combined 
with absolute purity, being the essential features of all our stocks, ivhile at the same time we do not 
overlook the desiiability ot an even light colour, good size and weight, freedom from injury, true to their kind, 
and general uniformity in character. 
Fig 1 represents a transverse cut or section through 50 grains of Barley, and shows the white floury 
surface so characteristic of a good malting sample. Fig. 2, one of the half grains removed from Fig. i and 
Fig. 2. — Good. 
Fig. 3. — Indifierent, 
magnified about eight diameters. The almost perfect maturation and quality of this grain is evidenced by the 
ruptured starch-containing cells of the endosperm. Barley of this class and in this condition is more easily 
worked by the maltster, the extract produced is greater in amount, and of better quality. In Fig. 3 the absence 
of uniformity m the colour of the grain, combined with a smooth instead of a wrinkled skin, is to the expert 
direct evidence of irregular or deficient maturation, resulting in what W'e know as a steely or flinty grain. Such 
a sample is not “ kindly,” and, if at all, can only be used and modified on the maltster’s floor with difficulty. 
told thit I this year from your stock nearly every ear has 16 or 17 kernels each side, though I had been 
told that I cannot get Goldthorpe to grow above 14 kernels. I never grew better Barley than I have done this year.”— 
R. W., Thrapston, October 4th, 1911. 
Raynes Park, London, S.W.—1912. 
