Practical Statement on the foregoing Sulject. 153 

 two to assist, in all eight oxen, to constant plough-labour, 

 every day in the year that it was possible for them to work. 

 I consider the attempt of such consequence to the landed 

 interest, so momentous an illustration of the powers of these 

 superior animals in labour, that I beg leave here to offer him 

 my sincere thanks ; and I have the honour to be. 

 With all respect to the Society, &c. &c. 

 To the Secretary. Somerville. 



XXVI. Practical Statement on the former Sulject, uith 

 Claim of Premium. By John Billingsley, Esq.* 



The claimant states, that his servant Esau Green has on a 

 farm of eight hundred acres, the soil of which is of a middling 

 texture, ploughed and harrowed, with a team of six oxen 

 and a double-furrow plough, the following acres of land, 

 statute -measure, between the 1st day of January and the 

 J st of December, 1804, viz. 



Acres. 



5Q of oat stubbie. 

 02 of turnips for oats. 

 68 of ley. 



68 of ley cross-ploughed for a fallow. 

 100 of fallow, for the purpose of being cleaned after a 

 slovenly tenant. 

 19 of vetches. 

 12 of vetches folded off, and sown with wheat. 



385 acres ploughed in eleven months. 



56 of oat stubble. 



62 of turnip sown to oats. 



14 of ley. 



80 of fallow. 



48 of cross-ploughed ley. 



19 of vetches. 



12 of wheat. 



^91 acres harrowed in the same eleven months. 



• I'tom Letters aiul Papen of the Bath AgrUuUuTul Society, vol. X. 



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