ofOxen and Neat Cattle in Husbandry, 131 



Brought over 680 

 Lime carried and "butted"* over the land,-^ 



160 butts, equal to two acres work, being I 120 Hailing. 

 a large proportion of 1920 hogsheads, or [123 Buttins* 

 9600 bushels of lime J 



Twenty-five acres of the turnip land dunged, 



equal to - _ _ - 30^ 



Total 953-i- 



Hay harvest, corn harvest, corn to market, hailing of 

 timber. Sec. &c. not easily calculated, but still to be allowed 

 for, probably amounting to Allowing for three- 



year-old steers ninety acres, and eight half days work of 

 two two-year-old bulls, worked occasionally with the steers 

 for the purpose of keeping them quiet; allowing also as 

 above, the hay harvest, &c. not brought to account ; it will 

 appear that the labour of the twelve oxen throughout the year 

 will amount to, if not exceed, one thousand acres. 



The average amount of our labour is two acres of ley 

 ground per day, and fallowing and stirring more than two 

 acres; but the second cross ploughing, or earth, somewhat 

 less. Our teams consist of four oxen, a man, and a boy, to 

 each double-furrow plough, and to each four-wheel wag- 

 gon. Our ploughing in general very deep, and our fields 

 small, not exceeding 4 1- acres each on the average. These 

 two circumstances are to he duly considered as adding ma- 

 terially to the labour. The working stock consists of six- 

 teen steers and oxen, two bulls, and three light horses, viz. 

 six five-year-old oxen, six four-year-old steers, and four 

 three-year-old ditto. They are fresh growing stock, and 

 are regularly turned out to graze, aflcr the barley sowing, at 

 six years old. The whole object aimed at is to carry on our 

 course of crops on the most speedy and vigorous system, 

 but without injury to ihc growth of the stock. 



It is evident that my labour, severe as it long has been, 

 cannot be found to injure the health or growth of the stock: 



» Butting. The lime beic^ mixed with the foreheads or headlands round 

 ihc hcdge« of the field, i» from thence carried in impltments called biitf, 

 t>tfdily over the Uod, — a laborious but good luanngemcnc, 



the 



