§ MR. G. MILLESsaid, he would beg to ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Whether, in the promised permission to sprout barley, so that the operation be conducted within a quarter of a mile of a kiln, he will exclude the words "hop oast," from the definition of "kiln," without which exclusion the permission will be practically nullified to a large number of farmers in hop-growing counties?
§ THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUERSir, there is no doubt that "hop oast" is a kiln, and a kiln subject to all the dangers we anticipate; and if we were to exclude it from the Act, we should really be allowing kilns perfectly well adapted for drying malt. I fear, therefore, the farmers in hop-growing counties will be precluded from the benefit we intended for them; for I am afraid we cannot make an exception without seriously compromising the very principle on which we are able to make a concession, which is that there shall be no attempt to kiln-dry barley after being steeped for the purpose of feeding cattle.