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Rigby, of Sutton Weaver, near Warrington, Secretary of tlie Royal 
Liverpool, Manchester, and North Lancashire Agricultural Society, he 
mentioned from operations at his own mills :— 
“We are not using any Russian Wheat just now. It is a very poor 
Wheat, and very dirty and ill-cleaned at home, as also is the Indian 
Wheat, and the River Plate Wheat; the latter is better Wheat than 
Russian, hut comes in quite as dirty, and as full of straws in short 
pieces, and of chaff from the grains. We find the Indian Wheat has 
most heavy rubbish in it, consisting of small, hard lumps of dirt 
and clay. 
“ We have to wash and to soak sometimes this sort of Wheat (to 
soften the lumps and so wash away the earth) and the other hard 
kinds. Little flies often come out of the grains when it is being 
damped, and when it is passed through strong currents of air that we 
put it through to draw out the chaff and straw. 
“Your correspondent says rightly, ‘millers would rather have 
clean cargoes,’ for it requires both very expensive and complicated 
working machines to clean Wheat fit for use, and is great loss. We 
have just been putting in some new machinery, and are now taking out 
six separate sorts of rubbish that had very little money value.” 
On August 28th, Mr. Rigby further favoured me with the following 
information regarding Barley :— 
“In answer to your query about Barley importation: We do get 
large quantities into Liverpool from Sweden, Norway, Germany, 
Russia, Egypt, Australia, and the River Plate. The Egyptian is the 
poorest; I enclose you a small sample. It often comes full of weevils 
and mites, and is sometimes not so well cleaned as this sample, being 
more ‘ tally,* or having the tails broken off it in abundance, and some¬ 
times particles of straw. 
“ The debris taken out of Indian Wheat is the chief source of 
danger of carrying insect-life or spreading it ... ; it is of little value, 
and is used for feeding poultry, and in some cases pigs pick up what 
grain there is in it. The manure of said pigs is a fruitful source of 
weeds afterwards.”* 
From Hull I was favoured both by information and by samples of 
different kinds of waste products removed from foul Wheat (described 
in detail further on), and have to express my thanks both to Mr. Ellis 
and Mr. Kirby for the assistance kindly given me. 
At my request Mr. Edm. Riley, of the Weir, Hessle, near Hull 
(who assisted me for many months in investigations relatively to 
importation of Hessian Fly in imported straw), was kindly favoured by 
* The above remark as to spread of infestation is well worth observation 
regarding all animals, including poultry, which feed on the infested screenings. 
