88 Practical Experience in the Manufactur e and Use of Malt. 
from competition with the best, the consequent enhanced price 
of the latter, coupled with the benefit the growers would get 
from feeding their own produce in the shape of malt, would 
enable barley-growing farmers in some degree to meet the 
difficulty of carrying on their business in these hard times 
without positive loss. 
On this subject the following letter has been addressed to the 
Secretary by Mr. James Howard, M.P. : — 
" In answer to your inquiry about malt, I regret I cannot 
furnish any comparative results between this and other feeding 
stuffs. For many years I have used malt for getting horses into 
condition with the best results. Since the repeal of the tax it 
has become upon my farms an article of regular diet. Each 
working horse has weekly bushel of oats, 1 peck of maize, 
a peck of malt, and 14 lbs. of bran, the maize and malt being 
crushed and mixed together ; malt does not do without crushing. 
Our horses have done better on this allowance than they did 
when fed upon 2 bushels of oats, half a bushel of maize, and 
14 lbs. bran ; there is, moreover, an appreciable saving in the 
cost of keep. Young growing horses, not yet in the team, have 
IJ lb. malt per day, in addition to 3 pecks of oats and 14 lbs. 
of bran per week. Wether sheep on roots have half a lb. each 
per day in addition to half a pint of maize and 1 pint of tail- 
barley. The housed sheep have, per score, 2 bushels of malt 
and 2 bushels of maize weekly, besides linseed and cotton-cake, 
changing the maize occasionally for white peas and old beans. 
I have not yet given malt to ewes, but intend to commence 
its use when the lambs are about a month old.* Our feeding 
bullocks have 2^ lbs. (increased to 4 lbs. as they reach maturity) 
of malt per day, mixed with 1 gallon of meal and 1 gallon of 
linseed and cotton-cake. Our young horned stock have about 
half a lb. each of malt, with a pound of cotton-cake per day. I 
find it desirable to proceed tentatively, commencing with small 
quantities, and increasing the quantity as I find it suits the 
animals. I am satisfied with the results, and am convinced that 
malt will become an article of regular diet upon stock farms. 
My bailiff formerly managed a farm for a Maltster, and had 
considerable experience in its use before the tax was repealed, 
he entertains a high opinion of its value if judiciously used. — 
Clapham Park, Bedfordshire, Feb. 7, 1881." 
* Since this letter was ■written I have commenced to give malt to the lambs. 
Three hundred lambs have, per wtelc, 2 bushels malt, 2 bushels maize, 2 bushel* 
■white peas, all crushed and mixed ■with 1 cwt. bran. The lambs are doing •welL 
