Live Stock Teams Mocks of working of. 7 f j i 



When the fields are at a diftance, it may however be more advifable to have- the 

 teams baited in them than to come home for the purpofe, efpecially in the autumn 

 and winter feafons when the days are ihort. 



Where the above management is adopted, a great deal more work will be done 

 -than when the carter or head man\\zs the care of cleaning and managing the horfes, 

 as,in order to give himfelf more time,he takes .every means of fhortening the day s 

 work. An odd man, who can be occafionally employed on other jobs, and fully de 

 pended upon, may be proper to be made Life of as horfe-keeper ; the farmer being 

 attentive to fee that the horfes be well cleaned in the mere concealed as well as 

 other parts.* 



Mr. Bannifter remarks, that &quot; the management of the plough team varies efien- 

 tially in different counties, and even in different parts of the fame county,whether 

 the labour to be performed as a day s work by the fame number of cattle, the qua 

 lity and quantity of their food, or the ftated hours for baiting and attendance, be 

 confidered. In the eaftcrn part of the county of Kent, the waggoner or head 

 ploughman pays an early regard to his horfes, and baits them continually with 

 chaff and corn from the time of his riling, at four o clock till fix or feven, when 

 the day s work commences ; and in the afternoon, whilft the mate is baiting, the 

 waggoner employs himfelf by cutting caving into chaff, or, where this is not in 

 fufficient plenty, hayandftraw mixed, and fometimes oats in the fheaf. At eight 

 in the evening he goes to bed, and leaves the attendance on the team to his mate, 

 who fits with them till ten, fo that the horfes are left but a few hours to themfelves ; 

 and this diligent attendance is unavoidably neceffary, fince in this part of the 

 county the horfes are not permitted to have any rack-meat, but have generally a 

 full allowance of corn ; whereas, on the other fide of the county, the ftable-door 

 is rarely opened of a morning before five or fix o clock in the winter, and by nine 

 in the evening the horfes are racked up and left to their repofe,-and as by this method 

 of giving the horfes rack-meat the lefs chaff is required, fo there is generally a 

 fufficient quantity of this produced by the thrafher ; if not, the labour of cutting 

 does not often fall to the ploughman, but is paid for by the farmer to apcrfon who 

 is expert at this bufinefs.&quot; 



By the former praclice there is, it is obferved, a referve of a confiderablequan 

 tity of fodder, which, when given to the horfes without limitation, forms a. 

 large item in the rural account at the end of the year, efpecially when the fitua. 



* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXXV. 

 VOL. II. 4 Z 



