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reins ; they will regularly plough an acre of land, 

 every day, and in lefs than eight hours time; I 

 believe they will do it in (even, but I would not 

 aifert more than I know they perform. 



I have a fmall plantation, in which the trees are 

 planted in rows ten feet afunder; the intervals are 

 ploughed by a fingle ox with a light plough, and 

 he is driven by the man who holds it. I mention 

 this as an inftancc of their great docility.- 



My oxen go in a cart fingle, or one, two, three* 

 or more in proportion to the load. Four oxen will 

 draw eighty bufhels of barley, or oats, in a wag- 

 gon, with cafe; and if they are good in their kind, 

 will travel as fall as horfes with the fame load. 



I frequently fend out eighty bufhels of oats 

 with only three oxen; and forty bufhels with 

 one ox, in a light cart, which I think of all others 

 the bed method of carriage. My workmen are 

 now perfectly reconciled to the ufe of oxen ; and 

 the. folio wing reafons determine me to prefer them 

 greatly to horfes: — 



\ft. They are kept at much lefs expence. — - 

 Mine never eat corn or meal of any fort. During 

 the winter, they arc kept in good order for work 



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