The bases of the temperance reform: an exposition and appeal./ With replies to numerous objections. By Rev. Dawson Burns.

T,Vlitt co/dId be Doi/c eitJ ijc -BaizlIcy.
crofis wo'lt't b-e pr'ay..'ichdly',lct~f gregt rltl/." But the -tnswers to this objection are conclusive. (i.) ~'arlvy ai- rag
stil be z'/ rcfggest, hethe/r for imaz)/? or fol,t as food for
bzilocks,- wzile z'Is fcltcllz'ig powvers have been firozed Upo,
horses anrdfiz, s.* So with apples now used in making,
cider. The f-armers of Aimerica, amiong w-homi the practice of total abstinence has made lnost extensive way,
have never found any difficulty in profitably disposing of
their produce, either on their own farms or in the open
market. English farmers, who haive conscientiously objected to sell barley for maltifig, have not been losers by
their adherence to principle. A correspondeit of the
,7fark Lage Ef.t-iress communicated the result of an experiment in horse-feeding in these terms The keep of the
horses upon which the experiment was made had been
one bushel of beans, one bushel of oats, and one bushel
of bran each per week. The beans and oats were discontinued, and boiled barley supplied instead, of whlich
once bushel was found to suffice. In other respects, the
food of the horses was the same as they had been used to,
* The long and loud outcry in favor of malt as superior to barley for cattle has been scientifically disproved more than once. Inl two series of experimnents, undertaken in the months of October, November, and December,
x845, by order of the Government, it was discovered that the barley-fed bullocks increased 204 lbs., as compared with an increase of Io-4'5 lbs. in the
mralt-fed bullock. Experiments upon milch cows also showed, in the words
of Professor Thomson, that "barley is superior to malt, we,ight fcr
weight." In.865, a new set of experiments were carried out upon twenty
milking cows, twenty fattening oxen, sixty sheep, and forty-eighlt pigs. The
barley-fed cows "invariably showed the higher proportion of cream"; the
ten oxen fed on barley gave, during twenty weeks, 408 lbs. more increase in
live weight than those having an equal amount of the same barley malted.
The agricultural mind must now be convinced of this fact, as the Act of Parliament providing for the making of malt free of duty for the feeding of cattle, has become practically repealed by the almost universal neglect of the
farmers to take advantage of it. In I865 the bushels of malt so made were
55,321; in $871 they were next to nil! So much for the argument once
raised against the malt tax, that cattle would thrive very much more on malt
than on barley, and that the tax stood in the way of the better alternative.
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