The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1863-04-28 00:00:00

MALT AS FOOD VOX CATTLE

The ffillowhur are pas rpm es this refer Irmo the
addresses of Mr. Bork. of Wallaby • Mr . hilsllll. at
Oradea stied Mr. .7. Witham*, ef et the weer
intervie• el the depetatioa with Otho Glow olio, oil oho
Exchequer f—
ur, Brim (Weetry) aid; Ky &thee sad myself
have, 2 believe. papered mons earths tee ear-
bilious of the Meyer Apieelfrel sod ether li
Societies Miss almost any ate the ia losper&alrf
or driers from experiesee Mr malt is raproe to any
, other article for feeding eras op Se Sim eery tirtop
exelitne to wash they 141411i111 he be lineurt whoa
they ars landed for the aboor yard. • rent surer
of the swirls whir obtained the highest heron at
the Battersea Show last yaw were tots. mall I her
had some inperissice io the leedW either no irk
sad I con state, that el the Yorke Oen ler peer
the prise Leicester, wen mirth width heil been ted
for the most part as malt. Imu pet good Merry fee
malting at per too, and the manias will bring the
eon s to £3. I am now prise 41*per tee filar
ethe, being of imam Amoco' to pet op WWI
the maselsetared article whir is Prod.*; sod I
rhoold meek prefer asiag malt, if the law pensithedi
me 4. 4. se ler the feeding of stock.
Mr. Tarr A. 11114 end Am regards the halm
Of oak, the Maltax of a.uee &ler se, r fernmea,,
men iojeriosaly Ur other a or the easesseety.
Mtwara., as corares, we an offered by it in the
esseri.way as other ; but it alines es or fatoom
posharly, by preventieg ge from snag rough resead-
este barley for the haling of stock. I believe M
lathy were malted for &ding pIitSCIMPS, it weehffll
an digestible and Ornstein, and siesta wasp. pur
brae reser& Pies wall sot barley isa row date, lieh
or
so iritb warp ; sad while the gierket rice et
park told. per lb., that of metre sad beef is Id trog
a &Seneca el 10 WO cent. in favour of perk. N 2 gisiA
sheep holey. insey of them die; but it deem mth MN
pip. Piro will corer row meal wither ex
izDiases earl but twatinatiag aninita,er=
the Insist queity et rat, mesa assimilate grate
the raw article. Earle, sets inferausly oa their
etemeek, and requires something le oreirrare it; sad
for that rears lan obliged to see oilrlin I wend
here remark that I wire to Dr. Voelloker, the erber
myrindteral cherel, is order to renter whether bb
views on this point ooineided MA my own. raw
was, that Chen could be no dart that melt wee mew
digestive Wien raw meal, nod thr whim used as rim ad-
dition to other food is the feria' of sleek It was bear
Arial eves in the case ell pre. I serer thell re
lower qualities of Earley wird urn digestible, both
as food and as condiment. if we were .lowed ma-
ser& budey into malt. Given me • vegetable it raid
he more dspatible ; animals would seximaler Me ferns
properties more readily • we should enjoy the adverage
of it so with Web food as etseff art slaw, and
there Mori be more ben and 'metre far She sow
inanity,
Mr. .1. Wittman refined also to other inferior
effects of the Malt Tax. He mid ernsider that the
labourers aid the artier. en the perms most injured
by this tax, much ae the farmer may mod does stiffer
from its operation. The labourer is physiredly affected
by it, inasmuch as be has to work ander a boning sea
deer harvest, sod, while his mere wishes to give
hit. a.li.at quantity of the national range, bow,
be is solopelled, 00 accrot .11k. preemie of the Arty,
to furnish him with it °sly to • very limited erre.
Apia, the Malt Tax le objestionable on moist growths.
I believe that the greater part of the drunkenness
which incurs in this sorry arises from the duty oa
melt. The prsdunica and gee of beer at their owe
dwellings used to be regarded by labourers as a sistiosal
birthright; hut now they have so opportasity of
Arial!
of at home. What ix the esmeresese t The
higher society, although they have fell
com-
mend the luxuries of life, are not. generally seething,
is the habit of drinking to errs. Again, the 'add&
clam, and eareially fanners, have °reentered of
drinking to ears ; they hare plenty of drink at theis
asounmod ; imit they do not, se a rale, abuse it. I, for
example, ham always a barrel of good beer within-
reach in my... house, boil de not on that sereant
take too run. Neither the upper nor middle-dase, se
• rel., get irbriated. Bet a very Inge peoperre of
the tower sir are found drinking to 011080111 ea arena,
eatainga and going about the rests and reads ire
a stet* of iwkozieatiess. Why is there this differemse y II
is, I believe, burr the upper and middhecleases base
plenty to drink at betook sad reser tbe poor re has
a ring to drink at her, and is thorns dein *tor
ether Ores. Moreover, whets the poor man pets to
these places he does not erre a pare artier for his
money, but one which has been adulterated. Let the
duty on wok be abolished, sod we should have the
pore essence of inslt, sod boas, made from our owe
produce, and the temptation to inkniestion would hI
to a grunt extent lemened. Thera is or poied retrial:
to the feeding of stock, white appears Os have bra
overlooked by the preceding opeakers. A geatlemsa
molding in my own neiglhosi hoot. Mr. They're lug
year fed 300 sheep os malt. Me le is isalleter, sad be
did not her what des to do with the melt thee
employed, as it was not good enough for brewing.
Having, seder these eircumstanoss, fed 3811 show on
melt, be sought to obtain a renimios of the dry ; but
it was not remitted. and be had to pay the when
22a. Pal. per quarter for the malt thus employe& Mad
foreigner, tinier just the other side ef the earth say,
neer Calais or Boalorie. prehred I. England IS equal
quantity of malt, there would have hems a drawback of
the whole amount of the deity. cos its being exacted
from the English shove.; and after feeding 300 lour
sheep upon it, he might have errand with thees In
the Leaden market against Mr. Pamir, perhaps is
the yen mass day on which that geotlemao'o sheep
were offered for sale. Thee, while ill. forager might
tr advantage of feeding his sheep oa malt for the
Ileglish market without paying say duty, the British
farmer, if be wished to feed his sheep ea malt, wee
erns* to a tax of Th. 84. per queer. These an
firs which every English argiltarist can sparer
the importerne, without diving very deeply into the
abject. Mr. Fisher Robkw will tell you that mate at
the best animals he has ever produced were fed on malt.
That wax tin roe as mends his eetire bone, which
won the ern pries last year at lb* Battersea Show. A
mailman who comes from Err can also intone you
that his best star, been fed in the rue maser.
I ask, is it an English system of treatment, to compel
porsoos to pay Er &I. per qr. on what is used solely in
feeding their anima/4 nail that, too, while traipses
us
exempted from the burden of the duty? I herb's'
will sow reduce this duty with the view of ultimately
taking It of entirely, in order that inner of ringer.
palled to as oilcan, linseed, and other articles of the
SIMS alam which we hare to buy of others for the
feeding of cattle and sheep, we may be masted to see
produce of our own, which is superior for the parpon
to any article thr an be purchased.

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FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL, 18413.

LONDON AND SOIITH-WESIKRN.