Live Stock. -^-Teams-^Mcthods of feeding of. 



717 



bufhels of oats each and chaff. With a fmaller allowance, which is often made by 

 farmers, they cannot be kept conftantly at work without failing off in condition, 

 by which there muft ultimately be a lofs to the farmer. The above allowance is 

 neceflary for about twenty weeks during the winter.* 



Expenfe of Ox-Team per Annum. 



JDEBTOR. 



Intereft of prime cod of a pair of four- 

 year old oxen, value 221. -.12 

 Hay, or grafs for ditto - 15 12 

 Rifle and accidents - - 010 

 Profit * - 13 16 



d. 





 

 

 



CREDITOR. 



By value of their labour r 

 SupjHjfing them worked fix 

 years, the value of them 

 would be then 281. bearing 

 an annual profit of 



- 



30 



s. d. 



Q 



100 



.31 



.31 



The profit of two oxen work 

 ing one year, is . 

 Ditto, of two horfes 



But as you muft keep one 

 fourth more oxen to do the 

 work of two horfes, the 

 profit of working your 

 farm with oxen would be 

 one fourth more 



13 16 



7 12 



639 



3 Q 



If therefore, the labour which 

 required two horfes to per 

 form it, were performed 

 with oxen, the profit of the 

 oxen would be greater than 

 the profit of the horfes, by . 9 12 9 



&quot; Thus, four horfes working upon a farm, do not appear to leave as much profit, by this laft 

 mode of cultivating it, as five oxen would, by the i um of 19!. 5s. 6d. ; while the former mode of 

 cultivating it by horfes would leave a profit of four guineas in favour of the horfes, the balance, 

 therefore, on the whole, is in favour of thp oxen, by the fum of 151. Is. 6d.&quot; 



* The keep in a team of four horfes, may be eftimated in this way, according to the preterit prices 

 of the different articles of food, 



