334 Advantages of oxen in husbandry. 



leave here to offer him my sincere thanks ; and I have the 

 honour to be, 



With all respect to the Society, &c. 



SOMERVILLE. 



Practical Statement on the foregoing Subject , with Claim of 

 Premium. By John Billingsley, Esq. * 



Work done by -^ claimant states, that his servant Esau Green has on 



a team of six a farm of eight hundred acres, the soil of which is of a 



months. VC Addling texture, ploughed and harrowed, with a team of 



six oxen and a double-furrow plough, the following acres of 



land, statute-measure, between the 1st day of January and 



the 1st of December, 1804, viz. 



Acres. 



56 of oat stubble. 

 62 of turnips for oats. 

 / 68 of ley. 



68 of ley cross-ploughed for a fallow. 

 100 of fallow, for the purpose of being cleaned after a 

 a slovenly tenant. 

 19 of vetches. 

 12 of vetches folded off, and sown with wheat. 



385 acres ploughed in eleven months. 



56 of oa$ stubble. 



62 of turnip sown to oats. 



14 of ley. 



80 of fallow. 



48 of cross-ploughed ley. 



19 of vetches. 



12 of wheat. 



291 acres harrowed in the same eleven months. 



* Bath Society's papers, vol. x. p. 61. 



The 



