-------------------------+-------+--------------------------------------- |Barley | Malt marked |marked | | No. 1.| No. 5.| No. 7.| No. 9.|No. 14.|No. 16. -------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- Moisture | 11·76| 8·72| 7·43| 7·76| 8·35| 7·06 Sugar | 3·75| 4·29| 5·48| 7·85| 9·46| 9·86 Starch and dextrine | 70·40| 71·03| 69·70| 67·57| 67·53| 67·67 [*] Albuminous compounds | | | | | | (flesh-forming matters)| 7·75| 8·44| 8·81| 9·37| 8·60| 8·31 Woody fibre (cellular) | 4·46| 5·22| 6·38| 5·38| 4·14| 5·11 Mineral matter (ash) | 1·88| 2·30| 2·20| 2·07| 1·92| 1·99 +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- | 100·00| 100·00| 100·00| 100·00| 100·00| 100·00 [* Containing nitrogen] | 1·24| 1·35| 1·41| 1·50| 1·38| 1·33 -------------------------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+------- A great deal has been said and written in favor of malt as a feeding stuff, but I greatly doubt its alleged decided superiority over barley; and until the results of accurately conducted comparative experiments made with those articles incontestably prove that superiority, I think it is somewhat a waste of nutriment to convert barley into malt for feeding purposes. The gentlemen who verbally, or in writing, refer so favorably to malt, acknowledge, with one or two exceptions, that their experience of the article is limited. Mr. John Hudson, of Brandon, states that he made a comparative experiment, the results of which proved the superiority of malt. But, in fact, the only properly-conducted experiments to determine the relative values of malt and barley were those made some years ago by Dr. Thompson, of Glasgow, by the direction of the Government, and those recently performed by Mr. Lawes, both producing results unfavorable to the malt. The issue of Dr. Thompson's investigations proved that milch cows fed on barley yielded more milk and butter than when supplied with an equal weight of malt.