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

B609/

relates to seed required by Captain Keane of the Cappoquin Estate Co. A letter of 29 January gives seed prices for the coming season, and notes the inferior price to be offered to farmers selling their produce elsewhere than back to JHB. A letter of 29 November 1946 concerns discharge of British barley by National Grain Silo Ltd, Cork. Several other letters relate to British barley. A letter of 6 November notes DoA advice that JHB is no longer required to purchase all barley offered to them in Ireland. B609/1/A/31 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1947 to 31 August 1948. A letter of 21 August 1947 includes specimen forms for barley returns. A letter of 13 August informs JHB of AGS’ policy for buying Irish barley after the removal of existing regulations. This is to include registration of farmers as growers; a draft registration form is enclosed. A letter of 24 July concerns the unsuitability of much of this year’s seed barley at Ballinacurra. In a letter of 5 July, Sir RHV Levinge states that he has been in communication with Richard Beamish on the commission paid to agents buying barley, and both agree the present rate is adequate, but is nonetheless likely to rise. A letter of 23 June relates to new arrangements for managing malting coal supplies, now wartime restrictions have been lifted. In a letter of 7 June regarding transfer of surplus seed barley, it is noted that in the case of barrels from Beamish & Crawford an additional 1s 3d is paid: ‘This is customary where the transfer is made between members of the industry’. A letter of 15 March concerns recently agreed wage increases. A post card of 15 January has an ink stamp printed on it reading ‘Save Bread Flour’. A letter of 24 December 1947 from the Engineers’ Dept, AGS, concerns oil-fired equipment. A letter of 28 November relates to the sale of AGS by-products such as dried yeast to farmers as a feed stuff. It is hoped that this may reduce the amount of barley held back by farmers for feeding animals. In a letter of 27 October it is stated that none of the 1947 native barley is of malting quality and that the 1000 corn weight on deliveries from east Cork is the lowest since AGS records began in 1902. A letter of 17 September advises JHB to reconsider providing its own lorries to collect barley, as ‘the day is gone when one can ever again expect farmers to deliver in any quantity to the maltings’. B609/1/A/32 Letters from AGS, 1 September 1948 to 31 August 1949. A letter of 4 August 1949 covers several letters and a plan regarding oil-firing equipment. A letter of 13 January relates to policy on pricing of seed barley. A letter of 27 October 1948 concerning malting quota for the 1948-49 season states ‘the quality and quantity of Irish barley is considerably better this year and we are therefore fixing a quota for our Commission Houses of basic quantity plus 50% - approximately 30,000 barrels in your case’. The letter also refers to the oil-burning kiln at Charleston malting house. In a letter of 15 October, RHV Levinge advises Mrs West to direct all her letters to the Malt Dept to him, ‘with the exception of matters relating solely to barley research at the Cereal Station, which matters should be referred to Mr McMullen’. A letter of 5 October concerns the ‘astonishingly high’ results in trials of short strawed barley. A letter of 28 September relates to negotiations with the Cork Milling Co, with a view to taking them on as buying agents. In a letter of 24 September,