Live Stock. Teams Methods of. feeding. 715 



to work ; and, fecondly, when his farm is fo large that he can buy in a confidera- 

 ble lot of cattle annually, at a fmall expenfe per head, and feel no inconvenience in 

 turning out fuch beads from the teams to fattening as do not work well. In both 

 thefe cafes he has little doubt of the fuperiority of oxen to horfes. But in countries 

 that do not pofTefs a breed of cattle well adapted for work in the date of oxen, 

 and on fmall farms, whence fairs mud be attended at the didance of a hundred 

 miles to purchafe a few, and confequently at a great expenfe per head, and podibly 

 without land for fattening any, the benefit will be very quedionable. In fuch a 

 cafe he mould prefer the bulls of the country, which are everywhere to be procured 

 probably much cheaper than oxen ; are broken in with but little difficulty ; which 

 work well, and which will recover from fatigue fooner than any ox. This he be 

 lieves from what he has experienced, and from all the information he has procured, 

 is dating the quedion of the comparifon of horfes and oxen as nearly to the truth 

 as it can be done in few words. There are, however, forrie works in the bufinefs 

 of a farm in which horfes are better than either oxen or bulls, and therefore it 

 may be advantageous to keep a few horfes.*&quot; 



* In comparing the expenfes in the different forts of teams, it is remarked, in the Survey of the 

 North Riding of Yorkfhire, that where young horfes are employed in the cultivation of farms during 

 their growth, and then fold, the horfe-tcam will be the mofl profitable. But as this mode can only be 

 limited where blemiihed, aged, or other horfes worn out are made ufe of, the ox-team will be moft 

 advantageous both to the farmer and the public. 



The following llatements fliow the advantages of the different methods: 



Expense of Horse-Team, per Annum. 



DEBTOR. CREDITOR. 



/ s - d . S. d. 



One three-year old horfe 1400 By labour 200 days in the year, 

 One four-year old horfe -* IS fuppofitig them to plough one 

 Hay, or grafs, for two horfes at 4s. acre one rood per day, which, 

 per week each, for fifty-two weeks 20 16 at 5s. per acre, is 6s. 3d. per 

 Corn for ditto, 200 days, at one peck day, but deducing 2s. per day 

 and a half each day nine quarters for the man s wages their la- 

 three bufhels, at 18s. per quarter - 8 8 9 bour will be 4s. 3d. per day 42 10 @ 

 One years intereft of the firft coll of The improved value of the four- 



the horfes - 1 12 year old horfe 18 00 



Shoeing - . 150 A five-year old horfe, fold for - 2 2 Q 



Profit - 18 8 3 



. S2 10 O 



. 82 10 * 



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