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pigs, or poultry — will have to keep his eyes upon 

 the markets to see how the prices of feeding stuffs 

 vary, because it might be more profitable to him 

 on some occasions to give more of one food and 

 less of another, according to the prices of the 

 foods concerned, and this will be especially so 

 if he can got good and cheap wheat offals. 

 /'' There seems no doubt, however, that those stocli-^ 

 owners who would mostly benefit by a re-arrange- j 

 ment of our tariff system would be : (1) dairy ' 

 farmers who use such large quantities of meals 

 / for their cows, especially in that part of the year 

 when there is no grass available; (2) the 1 

 pig-owner, whether he be an allotment-holder 1 

 with his one sow or porker, the small-holder with ; 

 his two or three, or the regular and larger breeder i 

 of pigs — each of which animals consumes such a \ 

 large proportion of offals and barley-meal ; and \ 



(3) all who keep poultrj' for profit. ^ _y 



It seems a reasonable supposition that the wheat- 

 meal, or the bran, sharps and pollard, and the 

 barley-meal, of which so much is already used 

 at high prices on every farm, would come down 

 at least 4d. to 6d. in every shilling from present 

 prices, were we to obtain from our Colonies the 

 wheat, &c., which they are only too willing to 

 supply, instead of our obtaining from, for in- 

 stance, the Yankee (as now) the manufactured 

 lour without the offals, which offals he keeps 

 and feeds to his own live stock, ultimately 

 dumping such live stock upon our markets in 

 the same way as he does his flour. And it stands 



