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There are, undoubtedly, fome fituations where 
the fteepnefs of the hills, and others where the 
heavinefs of the foil, require more than ordinary 
{trength ; but furely it would be better to add to 
the zumber of horfes upon particular occafions, than 
to increafe the fize of she whole, efpecially as the 
roads to the market-towns are in general fo very 
good. 
It has been often afferted, that the benefits the 
Wiltfhire farmers derive from their excellent mar- 
kets, are more than paid for, by the expence of 
keeping fine horfes to carry their corn to them., 
Great horfes not only cof proportionably more at 
firft than {mall ones, but require much more and 
better food to keep up their flefh ; and the pride of 
a farmer, in buying fuch horfes, is generally fol- 
lowed by the pride of his carter, in keeping them 
as fat as poffible. And as their food (which in 
general is barley) is taken from the barn unmea- 
fured, the expence of keeping them is feldom ex- 
actly known. 
There are many inftances, where the expence of 
keeping up a fine team of horfes amounts to nearly 
the rent of the farm on which they are kept; and 
this expence is very feldom counterbalanced by 
any profit arifing by buying them in when colts, 
and felling them at five or fix years old, to go 
in {tage waggons or London drays, although this 
has been the great pretence for keeping this kind 
of 
