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Thefe oxen are never allowed any corn ; as it would prevent 

 their fattening fo k,indly afterwards. — Their food, in Summer, 

 is only a few vetches, by way of a bait, and the run of coarfe 

 meadow, or what are called lea-fowes, being rough paftures. 

 In Winter, they have nothing but cut food, confifting of two- 

 thirds hay, and one-third wheat ftraw ; and the Quantity they 

 eat in twenty-four hours is about 24 lb. of hay, and 12 lb. of 

 ftraw ; and, on the days of reft, they range as they like in the 

 ftraw yards ; for it is to be obferved, they are not. confined to 

 h(3t ftables, but have open fheds, under which they eat their 

 cut provender, and are generally left to their choice, to go in 

 or out. 



Under this management, as four oxen generally plough an 

 acre a day, and do other work in proportion, there can be no 

 doubt but their advantage is very great orer horfes, and the 

 refult to the public highly beneficial. 



The forty oxen that go off, are Summered in the beft pafture, 

 and finiihed with turnips the enfuing Winter. 



A correfpondent remarks — * The above is fo contrary to 

 the experiments made refpefting the vsrorking of oxen, that 1 

 am inclined to call in queftion the accuracy of the ftatement. 

 In the firjl place, A yoke of oxen will not plough an acre of 

 gjound pei- day, unlefs a broad furrow is taken, zdly^ They 

 are incapable of undergoing five days conftant labour per week ; 

 it being found neceffary, in ordinary cafes, to keep two fets, 

 the one to reheve the other, "^dly. They cannot be properly 

 fopported (as we of courfe muft fuppofe his Majefty's oxen to 

 be) upon 36 lb. of hay and ftraw per day. The comparative 

 value of oxen and horfes in hufbandry having been a fertile 

 fource for difputes betwixt praftical and theoretical men, it 

 would give me great fatlsfadlion to fee the queftion fairly ar- 

 gued in your Magazine. ' 



London, Dec. I'jth. The Magiftrates of Worcefter have 



given notice, by public advertifement, that all perfons guilty of 

 foreftalling, regrating, or ingrofling provifions, are punifhable 

 'by iudiilment ; and of their determination to proceed againlt 

 all fuch offenders with the utmoft feveritv. 



Upon the above paragraph, a correfpondent obfcrves, ' That 

 thefe obfolete terms, foreftalling, regrating, and ingrofling, con- 

 tinually get into the mouths of our municipal officers, whenever 

 provifions rife in price, whether they are in the leaft degree 

 applicable or not. He would aflc the fapient authors of the 

 advertifement, who, it is prefumeJ, are manufaAurers, whether 

 a piece of broad cloth, fold and refold at every ftage betwixt 

 Worcefter and London, would fell, at the latter place, a fing!e 



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