The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-10-19 00:00:00

BLANDFORD FARMERS' CLUB.

TER YULPLAL OF THE MALT TAIL

The last meeting of the season of the B'aradford
Farmers' Club, was held at the Crows Hotel, on Saturday
evening last, when there were present—Mr. .1. T. H.
Scutt (chairm.anl, Usurp. G. Gslpis, G. J. Fowler, W.
Watt, IL Fookra. J. Taylor, H. Senior, 0. Flower, J.
Ford, Ft Lewis, C. Cm-Bartlett, W. Young, KJ. Burnell,
C. Pope, W. Roger. Young, R. Brine, J. Forrektm, Z.
Beaker, C. Oid, 0. C. Richards, Drake, and Z. 0.
sick was (hon. see-etarY!.
The club passed an expression of sympathy with Mrs.
Guy, widow of the late Mr. 0. Guy, of Preston Farm, and
formerly one of the stewards of the club, in her recently
rustained low.

. I Tho following new members of the club wore elected :
! Mews. Charles Sam (retract Hinton), Old (Charlton).
,
sad W. Watts Hesunciestoot
The CHAIRMAN stated he had made several applications
to gentlemen—among others being Professors Wrightman
' and Stephenson—to come and reed them • paper. As,
, however, these had been muuocesstul, and he was not in •
1
, position himself to read a paper. he proposed, in order
' that their meeting might not totally be a barren one, to
, put before them a few questions relative to the Malt Tax,
, in the hops that they would evoke a discussion and an
' expression of npinloo. TM find qnsstinn In would ask
: them was—Will the repeal of the Malt Tax Jo the seri-
, culturirte of this country any good t 2 sit. Is barley tend-
ing cheap r or dewier in consequence I 3rd. Will malt be
' made use of for the feeding of etoCh, If to, what advantages.
' If any, will he gained over other feeding staffs I 4th.
! Would it be wise to agitate th 'notation of the adultera-
tion of bier / If M. Gladstone. object was t, raise the
price nf ha-ley to benefit tis farmers, ought he not to
, stipulate that all beer showed be brewed from malt and
hnpt only, and a heavy meshy imposed for the least
' in•ringentent of (bet? 111. a-, bear, acid applaum ) No
doubt this qinostion—(.,f tie repeal of the Malt Teal—was
agit dad some years since, but his did nit think they had
hoard much of Ito' late years When the original agitation
' o immetmed he thought the idea IVY DIM that the duty
should be taken off malt and put upon beer, but rather to
' cheapen its use fer the purposes of making beer, and
' thereby to lacrosse its consumption. His impression was
' that I y taking it off malt and placing it on beer did not
cheapen the article, in feat he had been told by • brewer
that day tits% it added something like ils, per quarter on
melt used in brewing.
Mr. J. FORD thought it, very good measure. They had
been expecting it for some years past, and he said some
years h.gn he booed he should live to see it come to jpaar,
and for this reason—lo his neighbourhood they could not
grow Imlay quite a, good as they could In other plates,
and when they brought eansples or a middling quality into
the market the tuslisters mid "Os, it isn't good enough,"
and they were obliged to make um of it for feeding stuff.
He thought, therefore, with tM tax taken off they would
have a better opportunity of selling it. if not, for VW,
much m we mousy they would not be obliged to carry it
home itraio, as they had been for muse years past.
Whether they were going to benefit from it to any great
astute or not, they must wait and see; but one think he
vote certain of, they 00414 feed sham and besets very much
better with malt than barley. (Hem) Malt mixed in
small quanilty with the ether food was about the best
thing that could be given. He used a good deal of chair
himself, and found that malt mixed with it gave it • relish
and now that they could have their barley made Into malt
free of duty, it could not bet hare a mire heuelcial effect
upon he rearing of stock. As to the effect it would have
upon the hear les was not going to give an opinion; be
thought a very good beer could be made out hope and
welter.
The o.avial : Do you wish a law passed doing away
with the use of anything else?
Kr. Foto : I would have it brewed of hone and water,
ands very goal Wog la would be for us. Rs continuedl.
he thought the repeal would hi likely to Morose., the
41juosicif th. • middling sorts otf barley such
such as stir
did 1'1%71.6)1dr:7i: afteiuld llorils vay_ awl hi:ardery,f
People who bought • lot of their barley in Frame, because
they said their's was sot god enough to malt now, he
o hoped that would not be the case. With malt for iheir
cattle he believed they would no longer hal we to
thore outdintents that were so mock pushed into the
marker. (Rear. hear.)
Mr. Fowl= was not in favour of the of the Yet
Tax. He never bad lfwen sad never to. He mold
not SOO how on earth it would benefit the farmer. Second-
rate barleys might be • little it. trier, but,.. the other head,
he bellowed the best would bs cheaper, and with
to malt foe feeding they were able to make it before, only
it wee stipulated it was not to be taken away. unless mixed in the presents ot an excise °Wier. A great deal
of malt, we also bellows'% woold Its sold by weight that
forager', was omit sold by measure. Now it must be sold
at nibs to tlfs Mtabel. Ils had fed with malt tor the bast
three weeks and c tuld lee au lutoreesstrnal in his besets.
that was certain, mid iti to his lambs he had antraltated
malt for oaks and could not but see they did quite as well.
&the two it MY cheaper In pouf he thought. At the
same time he did not think Mr. Gladstone would do the
community any good at *IL Years ago no doubt the
farmers were clamouring for it, but their numbers had
been getting less and less, until he believed now that half
of them were affSfiltt it. And it was a question to him
whether the foreigner, getting labour chess would not
be able to su ly llasin with malt cheaper they could
get it yes Mc Gladstone took off Malt Tax
and put a Id. on the Income Tax—hi favoured a few
farmers who bad elamoured for the repeal of the Malt
Tax, and offended the whole community by charging Id. more on their incomes (Hear, hear.) To take it car malt and put it on beer was not the least good; it wouldn't
affect the farmer at all.
Mr. Gurus on the neural subject was" entirely la
accord with what Mr. Ford had said. First of all
believed the repW Weald do them good, for it woold
their secondary barleys of more value; but he did not they would have each good prices for their floe-rate sorts,
except those that were first-rate—ifor no other would do
for the large brewers. As to the second Question, be did
not think they cou'd judge ahead the ulna of bar* at
the present time. Maiden had bees waiting to sae what
would be done, and had not begun malting so early this
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