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A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OF 



A Scotch boll of good barley, (equal to six Winchester 

 bushels) will weigh eighteen stones Dutch weight, the 

 proportion of husk to the kernel or meal does not exceed 

 a stone and an half, or two stones ; whilst the like quan- 

 tity of oats, weighing fourteen stones, will not produce 

 more than eight stone of meal or kernel. As the ave- 

 rage prices of barley and oats may be fairly stated at se- 

 venteen shillings and twelve shillings per boll, it is plain, 

 that in the one case sixteen stones of barley meal are 

 purchased for seventeen shillings, whilst eight stones of 

 oat -meal will cost twelve* 



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Experience has proved, beyond a doubt, that all corn- 

 given to horses and other cattle, should be broken, by* 

 being passed through rollers, or crushed in a mill. Horsea 

 not being ruminating animals, will receive considerable 

 benefit by this ceeonomical operation, and the loss or 

 waste, by swallowingtheir corn whole, will be prevented. 

 Barley boiled in sea water, or with a due proportion of sea 

 salty is a good supper for hard working horses. These 

 eeconomical modes of feeding horses have been con firmed 

 by several years experience, in keeping the horses of a 

 colliery. 



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