222 A TREATISE ON THE CO,, ACTION OF 



grain, would produce an annual revenue of 

 and the total sura of the duties on horses and cattle* would 

 amount to in addition to the present tax on 



malt for domestic consumption, breweries, and distilleries. 



Individuals will probably object to this tax; but as the 

 Author is fully persuaded that such objections, on their 

 part, can only proceed from their being unacquainted 

 with the advantages to be derived from a permission to 

 malt grain for the use of horses and cattle, some pains 

 shall be taken to obviate such objections ; and as it may 

 be a considerable time before the proposed duty take 

 place, if ever it should, individuals of the Board of Agri- 

 culture, or others, may experimentally satisfy themselves, 

 at the f resent duties which should be reckoned an object of 

 no moment when put in competition with an object of such 

 importance to themselves and to the country in general. 

 On which head the following statements are offered, ' 



Farm and other horses, when kept even with the most 

 rigid osconomy, are fed with oats, or other grain, during 

 seven months, or thirty weeks, of the year ; there are 



many 



* A tax on horses and neat cattle is paid by the inhabitants of Virginia and 

 Kentucky. 



