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

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by the Traffic Dept, AGS, regarding freight accounts. A note of 8 January gives Department of Agriculture reports on large scale, half drill, and small scale experiments. A letter of 8 November notes that all imported barley will be advised and imported by the Merchants’ Warehousing Company. A letter of 20 October concerning the Census of Production asks that JHB explain to DoA that seed barley is bought on account for AGS, kiln-dried, and sold on AGS’ behalf. It should not, it is stressed, appear on the Census as it is not JHB property. A letter of 14 October from the Traffic Dept, AGS, gives the scale of charges of the Great Southern Railways for cartage from Midleton station to Ballinacurra. A letter of 5 October informs Mrs West of agents from elsewhere in Ireland who will be supplying JHB this season. Also among October letters are many giving results of tests on barley samples sent to AGS by JHB; the names of the suppliers/farmers are noted. ‘we have no intention of competing with the millers for oats’. A letter of 6 August concerns barley agencies, noting that the Board is ‘very opposed to the idea of agencies in the vicinity of Commission Houses’. A letter of 20 June begins ‘next season you may need to find all the barley for malting for us’. Present is a letter from Hughes to Mr Hume, Cereal Station, Ballinacurra, giving results of Garden Plots experiments. A letter of 2 March asks whether JHB can repeat last year’s combine harvester experiment, adding ‘there seems to be little doubt that the use of these machines is going to spread in time’. In a letter of 8 February, C Buttanshaw thanks Mrs West for her kind letter on the occasion of his leaving the Malt Dept. Present is a copy of a letter from Hughes to DoA, informing them that the 10 barrels of pedigree allocated to AGS at the Barley Conference will be given this year to JHB. A letter of 21 December 1945 concerns the ‘remarkable’ results of the small scale experiments in barley cultivation conducted by the Cereal Station. Present, dated 18 October, is a copy of a letter from AGS to DoA, giving estimation of yield by the square yard method for 1945. B609/1/A/29 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1945 to 31 August 1946. A letter of 29 August 1946 from AH Hughes, Malt Dept, to Mrs West, concerns purchase of oats and commissions for non-malting barley. Hughes notes B609/1/A/30 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1946 to 31 August 1947. A letter of 6 August 1947 concerns malting of 1946 barley and drying of 1947 barley. It is noted there will be no deliveries of anthracite before next season, and conversion of kilns to oil fuel will not be completed in time for barley drying. The oil fired kilns, when completed, are to be used for malting only. A letter of 18 July names the barley agents to be appointed for the current season. A letter of 18 June, from Sir Richard HV Levinge, Malt Dept, to Mrs West, concerns the visit to Charleston and to the Cereal Station of Sir Hugh Beaver (AGS Managing Director; see B609/9/E/12). A letter of 28 May relates to an allocation of 97 tonnes of American malting anthracite made by the Department of Industry and Commerce. A letter of 30 April refers to labour troubles at JHB. A letter of 18 February expresses pleasure at hearing that JHB has joined the Irish Maltsters’ Association ‘as under present conditions of working it seems almost essential that Trades should work on a concerted policy’ [see B609/4/E/12]. A letter of 5 February