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

 is the case likewise with carnage, waggon, post horses, 

 and Irjrses for the saddle. A bashel and a half to each 

 horse per week, is not tuo great an average allo^vance for 

 these thiity weeks, this amounts annually to five quarters, 

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

 sum of 4I. 9s. yd. Of this expence, at least one fourth 

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

 say 20s ; from this will fall to be dcdu<5led a duty of 5s. 

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

 malting ; still there would be an annual saving on each 

 horse of 7s. I^ut this is a trifling objecSt in considera- 

 tion of the higher condition and order hoi*ses would be kept 

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

 to which they are now liable. 



The bcnefi.ts that neat cattle would receive at the small 

 tax of IS. per head are as follow : 



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 obstruSiions which at that season they arc hable 



to, 



