Use of Malt for Feeding Purposes. 
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Jurlng the latter part of the process it should not exceed 6 inches 
in depth, and should be kept constantly turned to prevent undue 
fermentation, and the rootlets of the grain from becoming 
matted together. The process altogether occupied on an average 
twelve days, but the time it takes is of course somewhat de- 
pendent on the temperature of the weather. I found a reduction 
of nearly 20 per cent, in the weight of the grain by the process, 
the bulk remaining about the same. I paid Is. G(/. per quarter 
of 8 imperial bushels for the labour, and burnt not quite 2 cwt. 
of best malting coal for drying each 5 quarters of barley, the 
value of which is 2s. dd., making the total cost of manufacture, 
exclusive of the use of oast, rather less than 2s. per quarter. 
The grain was kept on the kiln at least thirty-six hours, at a 
temperature on the oast-hair not exceeding 100° Fahrenheit, 
being kept thus low for fear of injuring the hair-cloth ; but not- 
withstanding this, I found the drying sufficiently good for 
feeding purposes, and that the malt will keep good for two or 
three months. My mode of using the malt for cattle is as 
follows : I grind it into meal, mix it with straw cavings and 
inferior hay cut into chaff, and a sufficient proportion of pulped 
roots to ferment the heap properly in twenty-four hours, by which 
time the mixture is fit for use, and is then fed in the usual way. 
I allow 1 gallon of malt-meal for each animal, and all have as 
much of the mixture as they will eat. The fatting cattle have 
linseed-cake and barley-meal in addition. 1 find the food 
thus treated is consumed very greedily, and, apart from any 
advantage in malt over barley as cattle food, I think its value 
as a condiment quite pays for the cost of conversion. I also 
use the malt for sheep and horses, and for their use pass it 
through an ordinary oat-crusher. The mixture used for sheep 
in the folds is malt, barley, and linseed-cake in nearly equal 
proportions ; and for horses, malt, barley, and oats, with the 
addition of bran equal in bulk to the whole of the other three 
articles. 
I commenced using malt in the foregoing way in the third 
week in October, and have seen no reason to alter my original 
plan of manufacture or feeding. All the animals are healthy 
and thriving. I have made a very considerable saving in my 
outlay for purchased foods, and have, I believe, fed my stock 
cheaper and better than I could have done in any other way. 
My barley has usually been grown of a good quality, and 
nearly all of it sold to the maltsters, but last season was an 
exceptional one throughout the district, the crop, though large 
in quantity, having been of an inferior quality, and consequently 
difficult to sell. If some such plan as mine were generally 
adopted, inferior and second-class barleys would be removed 
