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CONSIDERING the economic importance of floor malting in this country, it is somewhat remarkable that no work on the subject possessing any claim to thoroughness has hitherto been published. We hoped to find that the present book filled the void, but although it is a useful addition to the literature of malting, it cannot in its present form be regarded as a complete technical treatise on the subject. The author is evidently thoroughly conversant with the practice of floor malting, but owing, oresumably, to lack of literary experience, he has not done justice to his knowledge, and the book is marred by many signs of hasty writing. As it stands, however, the work is distinctly a useful one, and we have nothing but praise for the ten collotype plates it contains which illustrate the differences existing between the various types of barley employed in malting. These plates are of exceptional merit, and add very much to the value of the book from a technical point of view.
Practical Floor Malting.
By Hugh Lancaster. Pp. iv+211; with numerous illustrations. (London: The Brewing Trade Review, 1908.) Price 12s. 6d. net.
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Practical Floor Malting . Nature 79, 128 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/079128b0
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