AGRICULTURE WITH CHEMISTRY. 



many farm horses that are fed with grain all the year, as 

 is the .case likewise with carriage, waggon, post horses, 

 and horses for the saddle. A bushel and a half to each 

 horse per week, is not too great an average allowance for 

 these thirty weeks, this amounts annually to five quarters 

 and five bushels,. and at sixteen shillings per quarter, to the 

 sum of 41.95. yd. Of this expence,, at least one fourth 

 will be saved by feeding the cattle on malted grain, but 

 say 2os; from this will fall to be deducted a duty of 53* 

 to Government, and the sum of 8s. as the charges of 

 malting ; still there would be an annual saving on each 

 horse of ys. But this is a trifling object in considera- 

 tion of the higher condition and order horses would be kept 

 in, fresher and fitter for work, and freer from many diseases 

 to which they are now liable. 



The benefits that neat cattle would receive at the small 

 tax of is. per head are as follow : 



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By a supply, when necessary, of a small quantity of 



malt to year- old calves and young stock, they would, 



when green food is not to be procured, be kept open in 



[the belly, and the costiveness, binding of the hide, and 



biliary obstructions which at that season they are liable 



to, 



