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on which account my workmen added much to 

 the trouble of breaking them, by their obftinate 

 prejudices againft the ufeof them. 



At laft I was fortunate enough tp felecl a la- 

 bourer, who, though totally unufed to them, was 

 willing to take proper pains to break them. By 

 his good treatment and temper, they foon became 

 tradable, and as handy both at ploughing and 

 carting as any horfes. 



Being well fatisfied with their performance, I 

 refolved to difpofe of all my draft horfes, and 

 fubftitute oxen in their ftead. I have now com- 

 pleated my plan, and have not a fingle cart-horfe; 

 but the work of my farm (which confifts of up- 

 wards of one hundred acres of arable land, and 

 fixty of pafture and wood) is performed with cafe 

 by fix oxen; together with my ftatute-duty on the 

 highways, timber and corn, carting, harrowing, 

 rolling, and every part of rural bufmefs. They 

 are fhoed conftantiy : their harnefs is exactly the 

 fame as that of horfes, (excepting the necefTary 

 alterations for difference of fize and fhape) they 

 arodrove with bridles, and bits in their, mouths, 

 and anfwer to the fame words of the ploughman 

 or carter as horfes, and as readily. A fingle man 

 holds the plough, and drives a pair of oxen with 



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