The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1807-09-24 00:00:00

THE RADICLE.

This. is by much the most important ingan in
; without is root the grain will never ger-
minate, and worn too much, tile substance at the
corn wit' be exhausted, and the malt on that ac-
count will be light and unproduCtive. Ints has
:n7 nerto, I believe, either not heen sufficiently known
or att mided to ; in thus, as 11 every ma r natural
piocess, nature heiseit amts the best esidanation.
—O.l the richest and best lands the roots uur oariey
are short, and the plant large and struni; ; but o
loose and poor soils the routs are and toe
stem Midland weak. In the one case tiie root, hay..
ing readily tosthi what it was in stare. 7 or, stops ;
but in the other, nature is cnmpeileit to exhiend
much ot the pabulum on the more ignoble part tat
hes productsou. U.. we Ilsor of a asalt-bouse the
grain is worse situated than on the loosest and poor-
est land, for it contains aosoitat all; and it permitted,
the root there would ran out to sum: inches is length,
and almost wh thy etianst the suostance ot she curd.
Co prevent this is one of the principal objets in the
mentalist:hue of malt, and hence too a just criterion is
afforded tar witimating the merit ot different mahods
at working; tor that method which will accomplish
toe lull malting of the bailey, with the least possible
root, is so tat unequivocally the best, because such
malt will have expended the least portion of it,elf
en an object *nu: ely unproductive. Now diem is
perhaps no one circumstance wherein the Hertford-
shire nie.knd ot malting differs so distiudly from the
watering system, as in its short and comparatively
small radicle. 'Chit may be very clearly colleted from
leanyparts of the evideace.forthe watering party even
seem to have made a merit of it, by endeavouring
to shew that their own steepings, from the larger
quantity of root which they contained, approached
and even ran into door charges far beyond the
Hertfordshire steepings ; and they thence endea-
voured to infer that a larger opening was left in
the latter for fraud, by the introduelien and mixing
of elm privately steeped. It is indeed certainly true
' that the Hertfordshire mode of working gives the
fluor gauges low, and the other high ; but with this
the question of fraud has very little to do, for mixing
is seldom, it ever, praltised in whole floors; but the
short and small radicle of the one, and long bushy
toot of the other, am decisive charaderistics which
are admitted by themselves, and which would, in
my humble judgment, stamp a decided superiority
on the Hertfordshire malt.

That the radicle is adually famed from the body
of the barley is too obvious to require any proof,
And indeed it is universally admitted to be so ; and
as it is afterwards burnt off on the kiln, and be-
comes mere waste, every particle of matter which
it unnecessarily takes from the substance of the
corn is just so much loss, and though this has not
been at all adverted to in the inquiry belore the
Comnsittee, it does in tad constitute one of the most
important patio's& of the subjed, for it Asian), is
the expenditure of the substance of the barley on the
root, by working it too much out, which is the chief
cause why malt manufadured under the Wrung
systems at watering the floors is lighter and less pro-
datti ve than the malt made by the Hertfordshire
mode, without watering.