Bennett's of Ballinacurra Descriptive List (Ref. B609)

B609/

B609/1/A/8 Letters from AGS, 1925. Includes a letter (11 December 1925) forwarding a blank form of agreement for sales of barley to AGS by farmers/growers. Also present is a detailed letter of 24 November regarding malting results. A letter of 11 November concerns ‘a most remarkable case’ of mutation in oats. Attached to a letter of 20 October is a list of farmers ‘who having sold barley in 1925 failed to deliver any with records of their transactions in 1924 and 1923’. Several letters from July refer to damage to malting coal transported on the ship, the Gaelic. December 1926 discuss malting results in detail. A copy of a screen test result for Charleston Malting House is also present (10 November). Many letters from September relate to seed barley. A letter of 9 August explains the meaning of the word ‘puck’ in relation to grain stocks. In a letter of 13 April, Brewer-in-charge A Jackson states ‘there has, as you know, been a great deal of talk about Sugar Beet recently. I suppose there is none being grown in your district. If there is, I should like to know about it’. Many letters from February and March relate to the use of chartered steamer ships. A letter of 11 February includes a note of ‘Rate of wage paid in the South of Ireland 1870-1925 inclusive’. B609/1/A/9 Letters from AGS, January 1926 to December 1926. Letters from B609/1/A/10 Letters from AGS, 1927. A letter of 15 November 1927 includes “Brewers’ Valuation of barleys produced on the ‘Large Scale Variety Experiments’, 1917”. A letter of 10 October thanks Bennett for his expression of sympathy on the death of AGS chairman, the earl of Iveagh. The file contains several letters relating to a road census of growing crops (e.g., 24 August). B609/1/A/11 Letters from AGS, 1 January 1928 to 31 December 1928. Attached to the file is a tabular report of ‘Particulars of Malting Barley Purchases Season 1928/38’ [refers only to 1928]. Letters of 7 and 8 December relate to a strike by JHB staff [see B609/9/A/48). Among November letters is a typescript ‘Summarised report on inspections of Spratt-Archer barley, 1928’. Several letters from October are concerned with the barley market; that is, the buying of barley on the open market, not simply from customers/suppliers. In a letter of 7 August the brewer-in-charge notes he has been told by a government representative that the area of tillage had ceased to decrease in Ireland. A letter of 28 June includes a report on small-scale estimation of yield. A form letter of 23 October is an example of the type of letter which accompanies AGS cheques. Also present in this file is a post card with a Free State half-penny stamp (November).