134 AGRICULTURAL ESSAYS. 



construction of the body of the cart, the essential points are t© 

 fit it for the purposes for which it is mostly to be used ; to place 

 so much of it before the axletree, as that, when filled, about a 

 fifth of the weig-htof its cotitents will rest on the horse; and 

 that it be so constructed as to be tilted up, to empty its load. 



To those farmers in our country, who keep so many cattle, as 

 always to have a sufficient number of both hores and oxen, for 

 any purposes of husbandry, the introduction of the one horse 

 cart, may be considered as an object of minor importance. But 

 there are in our country, as in all other, a large class of the cul- 

 tivators of the soil, who find it necessary to use much economy 

 in the use of a team. In older countries, as well as in some 

 parts of our own, this class of farmers have found the one horse 

 cart to be one of the most useful implements of husbandry. I 

 have been informed by a farmer, who made the study of agricul- 

 tural economy an important object, that with a single horse 

 and horse cart and other implements of tillage, he performed all 

 the team work on his farm, which afforded him all the necessa- 

 ry produce for the support of his family, and that, with this 

 team, he found it both convenient and profitable, to transport 

 both his hay and fuel. The wagons in common use, are doubt- 

 less best, and indeed necessary, for those cultivators who pur- 

 sue the business of Arming on a large scale ; or who have occa- 

 sion to carry produce, or other heavy articles any considerable 

 distance ; though farmers of this description, would frequently 

 find the common horse cart a very convenient and profitable 

 vehicle for many purposes. It would therefore be a great im- 

 provement, in rural economy, to introduce the one horse cart 

 into general use among the farmers ; experience will soon at- 

 test its numerous advantages. That class of cultivators par- 

 ticularly, who improve only a garden, or a few acres of land, 

 will thereby save themselves from much expense, as well as the 

 great delay and inconvenience, which must stccrue from de- 

 pending on farmers to perform for them the numerous services, 

 which they might themselves perform with this cart and a sin- 

 gle horse, and one too, which might be purchased for a small 

 price, while he would possess all the properties necessary t© 

 carry into effect an economical and profitable plan of husband- 

 ry, on a small scale. 



The following improvement in the harnessing of horses for 

 the wagon, so as to do less injury to roads in travelling, has 

 J)een suggested to the citizens of the State of New- York, by 

 direction of the board of agriculture. Let the double whippel- 

 tree and neck-yoke be so long that each horse may travel in a 

 Jirte directly forward of the wheels. Travelling in this manner- 



