of performing their labour. Nay, they com- 

 monly faved a part of their meal, which they 

 fold. 



Again, allowing four feeds per day to a 

 horfe> the amount in a year is twenty-two 

 bolls, thirteen pecks. This is the whole pro- 

 duce of four acres of good ground, at five 

 and a half bolls, or four quarters for each 

 acre ; and which is much more than the a- 

 verage of any county. 



To this muft be added, at leaft one flone 

 of hay per day, for each horfe ; which is the 

 product of two acres, at one hundred and 

 eighty-two ftone, or one ton and three-fourths 

 for each acre, and which is about the general 

 average of hay crops in good feafons. 



I have known my plow-horfes eat two 

 ftone of hay, and two feeds of oats per day; 

 fo that, in fadl, the keeping of farm horfes, 

 when fed with corn and hay, is as expenfive 

 as that of carriage horfes. 



From the preceding calculation it appears, 

 that to fupport a carriage horfe, the produce 

 of fix acres of good ground is required. This 

 extent of land, even by the common mode of 

 cultivation, will maintain four men ; but if 

 laboured with the fpade would fupport twelve^ 



Now, 



