or eighteen months, the simplest and easiest way of getting rid
of them, is to place four or five lobsters on your heap of malt, the
smell of which will soon compel the weevils to quit the malt, and take
refuge on the walls, from which they can be swept with a broom into a
sheet or table cloth laid on the malt, and so taken off. It is
asserted, that by this simple contrivance not one weevil will remain in
the heap. Malt intended for brewing should be always screened before
grinding; and for this purpose it is a good contrivance to screen it by
means of the horse mill, as it runs from the hopper to the rollers or
stones to be ground, the expense of which apparatus is comparatively
nothing when compared to the advantages arising from it.

[2] By some this construction of a steep may be thought too dear;
in that case, a rough wooden one may be substituted, which,
instead of placing outside the house, I would place on the upper
floor of the malt house, so as to afford the opportunity of
getting down its contents to the lower floor by means of a plug
hole, which will save the labour of shovelling; but in summer,
when this steep is not employed, it should be filled with lime
water to prevent leaking, and to keep it sweet.

_Wooden Kilns, how constructed._

The best form for these kilns is the circular. I will suppose the
diameter sixteen feet; you construct your fire-place suitably to the
burning of wood at about ten feet outside your kiln house, sufficiently
elevated on iron bars to secure the draft of the fire place, from which
runs a proportionate sized flue into the kiln, communicating with a
circular flue which is close covered at top, and rounds the kiln on the
inside at the distance of two feet from the wall; on both sides of this
circular flue holes are left, at the distance of twelve or sixteen
inches apart, on both sides, to let out the smoke and heat; the
platform or floor of this kiln is raised about four or five feet above
the top of the flue, and is made of three quarter inch boards, tongued
and grooved, supported by joists two inches broad, and nine inches
deep, placed at proportioned distances, to give solidity to the floor.
The floor or platform of this kiln should be carefully laid, and well
nailed; in this floor should be placed a wooden chimney, nine inches
square, on the most convenient part of the inside next the wall, with a
wooden register at a