VI.] CULTIVATIOX. 



sides and thighs of the horse, there must be a 

 SPREADER at a proper distance from the hinder 

 part of the animal, long enough to keep the 

 traces sufficiently clear of his body; yet, as it 

 is desirable to have this spreader as short as pos- 

 sible, the traces, in the parts opposite the sides 

 and thighs may be sewed round, with some 

 coarse sacking, or something of that sort, to pre- 

 vent the galling. 



116. With these precautions, the work will be 

 done without the smallest risk of bruising the 

 corn-plants. It is what I have done, constantly, 

 in ploughing between Swedish turnips and 

 mangle-wurzel. It is what any body may do 

 without any difficulty. Farmers will make their 

 people do it at once without any ceremony; they 

 will tell them what to do, and ask nothing about 

 the state of their opinions about the matter ; and 

 if gentlemen have a mind to have the thing done, 

 they must do the same. If there be two oxen, 

 the one following the other, there must be a 

 driver, or else the leading ox may be apt to be 

 stretching his neck to get at the corn 3 and it is 

 the same with horses, of course. 



