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78 AGRICULTURE AND TARIFF REFORM. 



direction, in otlier words an average tariff of 10 

 per cent, on tlie few imported manufactured 

 articles coming within tliis category is not likely 

 at all to affect tlie cultivator. The great bulk of 

 the manures consists of raw material which will 

 arrive here untaxed. 



Tariff and the Live Stock. 



As we have said, it is on the great and all- 

 important question of feeding stuff's where th e 

 ) articular interests of farmer s com e in ; and as, 

 lerefore, the effect of tarin' reform vnW be 

 felt so much in this direction, we devote some 

 attention to it. 



How, then, are the live stock of the farm 

 fed on the best farms, for it is necessarv to know 

 something on that point? 



As to horses, the food required in winter con- 

 sists mainly of oat-straw, beans, and oat-straw 

 chaffed; v/hilst, in summer, the bulk of the food 

 is grass, or some green forage crop, to which may 

 be added some straw chaff and a liberal supply 

 of oats. 



Regarding sheep the v.-inter diet for fattening 

 I sheep is chiefly swedes and a small proportion 

 I of hay, undecorticated cotton cake, linseed cake, 

 I and oats ; whilst, in summer, there is usually 

 I given a very small supply of linseed cake and of 

 I undecorticated cotton cake, and a very liberal 

 supply of grass picked tip in the fields. In- 

 lamb ewes receive as a dietary mostly grass, 

 together with a little hay, oats, and bran, daily. 



