ADVANTAGES OF OXEN IN HUSBANDRY. 



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Unprepared as I was, it would hare been impossible to 

 have done it with that degree of accuracy, which I shall 

 adhere to in any statement of serious import to the public; 

 but the rules which govern the proceedings of the Bath 

 Society allowing me time to examine my own books, and 

 to obtain replies to certain needful questions, I have great Correct, 

 pleasure in stating, that the following report is now pre- 

 sented to the society, in substance, I trust, correct. In 

 that part of the statement, which reduces the hauling and 

 carting of manure to be equal to a given number of acres 

 ploughed, I have profited by the kind assistance of Mr. 

 Paul, and Mr. Gordon Grey. 



No land ploughed with horses, save part of one acre, as 

 a trial. 



Forty-four acres of ley ground broke up - 



Fifty ditto of spring corn, two earths, scari- 

 fied and dragged, equal to 1^ earth 

 more ______ 



Sixty ditto of turnips, at three earths, culti- 

 vated, or scarified and dragged, equal to 

 1| earth - -. - - - . 



Twenty-two ditto pease, at one earth, and 

 broad-cast dragged, part of it drilled 



Fifty-seven acres of wheat, 32 acres on one 

 earth, once dragged, and twenty-five of 

 heavier land, twice ploughed and twice 

 dragged - - - 



Twenty-nine ditto of ley ground, broke up 

 to December 1st 



Three ditto of beans, seven ditto winter 

 vetches, two ditto potatoes, cultivating, 

 dragging, &c. - - 



Lime carried and u butted".*' over the land,' 



• 160 butts, equal to two acres work,, 

 being a large proportion of 1920 hhds. 

 or 9600 bushels of linje - 



No of acres. 

 44 



170 



Work done by- 

 twelve oxen in 

 one year. 



271 



26 



123 



29 



17 



120 FaullDff 



j o£ Baiting* 



Carried forwards 925 



• Butting. T!ie lime being mixed with the forehead or head- 

 lands, round the edges of the field, is thence carried in implements 

 called butts, bodily over the land— -a laboriousbut good management. 



