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

B609/

[to be sent from JHB to AGS for analysis and classification]. Among letters for October is a report on seed barley deliveries. In a letter of 20 September, A Jackson gives his views on a possible change in policy on the pricing of seed barley. A letter of 19 September includes a report on results of nitrogen experiments. B609/1/A/15 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1931 to 31 August 1932. A letter of 4 May 1932 has a card attached signed by GS Philpotts (AGS Malt Dept) giving results of kiln-drying in JHB malt houses Nos I, II, and III. Among the letters for March is a report on malt deliveries in relation to steepings for Charleston Maltings. A letter of 17 December 1931 refers to preservation of pure lines of barley to prevent spontaneous variation, or ‘changelings’. A letter of 25 September refers to successful smut tests on samples and adds ‘I think we may congratulate ourselves on the results so far this season’. A letter of 21 September concerns correcting a perceived ‘most dreadful mistake’ in adopting a new method of sampling. Samples to date will have to be rejected, and new ones taken. per acre at Charleston, Castlebridge, and Enniscorthy, as part of an experiment. In a letter of 17 June 1933, GS Philpotts asks about yields and whether, in Mr Bennett’s view, farmers over- or under-estimate it: ‘the former in order to show how badly off they are and the latter to show that anyhow they are the best farmers in their district’. In a letter of 28 May, A Jackson mentions that his official connection with the Malt Dept has ceased. In a letter of 7 April Mr Philpotts enquires about barley bought by millers in Cork and Kerry. In a letter of 14 March, he suggests use of the new scotch coal ‘Rankinston’ rather than the more expensive Pontyberem preferred by Mr Bennett, as malting coal. A letter of 23 February forwards a copy of the Illustrated History of the Brewery. Several February letters relate to seed barley and smut tests. A letter of 24 January concerns the definition of ‘tailings’ (‘very small grains, small seeds, dust and other extraneous matter’) and B609/1/A/16 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1932 to 31 August 1933. A letter of 19 August 1933 concerns buying of barley on the market at once ‘in view of the earliness of the season’. A letter of 28 August compares average yield whether they should be included in official figures. A table [December 1932] for Charleston Maltings gives comparative temperature readings for kiln-drying of barley, 1932-33. A letter of 17 November includes a list of valuations of plot barley. A letter of 25 October concerns sending of 6/7000 barrels of Louth barley to JHB by sea. A table dated 29 September gives farmers’ names and addresses, with yields of barley grown for seed, 1932. B609/1/A/17 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1933 to 31 August 1934. In an ms letter dated 15 August 1934, WS Gossett, Malt Dept, writes to Miss McNeill regarding the forthcoming visit by Dr Neyman to see field experiments in Ireland. He refers to the recovery from injury of Mr McMullen and Mr Jackson, as well as himself, noting ‘how extremely inconvenient it has been to have all three of us out of the Brewery altogether’. [Mr Jackson lost a leg in a road accident- see letter dated 19