134 A TREATISE ON THE CONNECTION OF 



ascertain this question, -which, in the event, proving as it 

 is here presumed it woukl, highly in favour of the 

 malted food, there can he little douht, that on proper 

 representation of the beneficial efFe^ls of malted corn in 

 feeding cattle, Government would permit its use for 

 this purpose, under certain restriiflions and regulations, 

 especially as the indulgence is capable of being rendered 

 an objeift of considerable revenue, as will appear in the 

 miscellaneous observations of this work.. 



The ramifications, which, in a discussion of this na- 

 ture, branch out and involve almost every circumstance 

 that respeds the ceconomy of rural affairs, render it no 

 easy task to preserve such adistindt arrangement of the 

 several subjects as may be generally approved. 



The feeding of cattle may, perha])5, be considered as 

 improperly introduced under the last title of " Stable, 

 Farm-Yard Dung,* and Composts :" but on reference to 



the 



* The praiSlicc of liauJming, or mowing stubWcs, is in most cases to be recom- 

 inended ; as the farmer, by laying the stubble so gathered in his farm-yard, will 

 be enabled to return a greater quantity of prepared manure to bis fields, than if h^ 

 had ploughed the stubbie in. 



