343 LIABILITY OF THEASHING MACHINES TO TOLL. 



definition. If spades were employed for husbandry, the cart carrying 

 them would be exempt from toll ; but not so if the spades were intended 

 to be sent out to California, or to be used for some purpose foreign to 

 husbandry." But Colpridge and Cronipfon JJ. seemed to doubt whether, 

 if a person ke^t a steam-engine to go about to different tkr asking -machines, 

 it would be exempt. 



Where a person sent by a horse and cart thrashed barley, which had 

 grown upon his farm, to the mill for the purpose of having it brought 

 back as meal to be consumed by pigs on the farm, it was held that the 

 horse and cart were exempt from toll, on the ground that meal came 

 within the words ' fodder for cattle ' {Clements v. Smith). 



Thrashing-machines, though exempt from toll by General Tunipike 

 Act, may be made liable to a toll by a local act, 14 & 15 Vict. c. 38, s. 4 

 (Ablest V. Pritchard, 1 N.R. C.P. 210). 



