ises
merely from the different degrees of heat employed in the drying: the
main object is the quantity of flour. If the barley was light and thin,
whether from unripeness, blight, or any other cause, it will not malt so
well; but instead of sending out its roots in due time, a part of it
will still be barley. This will appear by putting a handful of unground
malt in cold water, and stirring it about till every grain is wetted;
the good will swim, and the unmalted barley sink to the bottom. But if
the barley be well malted, there is still a variety in the quality: for
a bushel of malt from fine, plump, heavy barley, will be better than the
same quantity from thin and light barley. Weight therefore here is the
criterion of quality; and a bushel of malt weighing forty-five pounds is
cheaper than any other at almost any price, supposing it to be free from
unmalted barley, for the barley itself is heavier than the malt. The
practice of mixing barley with the malt on a principle of economy, is
not to be approved; for though it may add a little to the strength of
the wort, it makes the beer flat and insipid, and of course unwholesome.

MARBLE. Chimney pieces, or marble slabs, may be cleaned with muriatic
acid, either diluted or in a pure state. If too strong, it will deprive
the marble of its polish, but may be restored by using a piece of felt
and a little putty powdered, rubbing it on with clean water. Another
method is, making a paste of a bullock's gall, a gill of soap lees, half
a gill of turpentine, and a little pipe clay. The paste is then applied
to the marble, and suffered to remain a day or two. It is afterwards
rubbed off, and applied a second or third time, to render the marble
perfectly clean, and give it the finest polish.

MARBLE CEMENT. If by any accident, marble or alabaster happen to be
broken, it may be strongly cemented together in the following manner.
Melt two pounds of bees' wax, and one pound of rosin. Take about the
same quantity of marble or other stones that require to be joined, and
reduce it to a powder; stir it well together with the melted mixture,
and knead the mass in water, till the powder is thoroughly incorporated
with the wax and rosin. The parts to be joined must be heated and made
quite dry, and the cement applied quite hot. Melted sulphur, laid on
fragments of stone previously heated, will make a firm and durable
cement. Little deficiencies in stones or corners that have been strippe