some allow the roots to get to 7/8 on an inch long; others never wish to see then above half that lenth.

the fourth or fifth day from the casting, and about a day the sprouting of the roots, the rudiment of of the future stem may be seen to tengthen. it rises from the same extremity with the root, and avancing within the husk, at last issues from the opposite end of the seed, and assumes the form of a green blade of grass. but the process of malting is brought to a conclusion some time before the stem has made so much progress as to burst the husk. plumula = acrospire

The progress of the acrospire is, at first, very rapid. by the right day after casting, it will have usually reached rather more than one-half the length of the grain. but after this time, its progress becomes much more slow, so that frequently another week elapses, or even more, before it has made its way to near the end of the seed, when it is understood to be proper to finish the malting

while these changes take place, the glutinous and mucilaginous matter, is taken up and removed. The colour of the Kernel becomes white, and the texture so loose that the Kernel crumbles to powder between the fingers.

This change is progressive; it begins at that end of the seed where the roots are, and gradually proceeds onward to the other extremity; so that one portion of the Kernel often appears in a friable state, while the other still retains the appearence of raw barley.