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uiufer the plough, and thirty or more in the ftate of grafs, fix horfes have often been 

 employed. And in thcfe cafes feldom more than two horfcs made ufe of as a 

 team. In diftricts where not lefs than three or four conftitute a team, the propor 

 tion is ftill higher. But under good management, in the unproved methods of cul 

 tivation, a much lefs extent of team may be fufficient. The bufmefs of for 

 ty acres in tillage, with thirty or more in fvvard, and a few in wood, has been 

 accomplished without difficulty by a pair of good horfcs. And two oxen with one 

 horfb would in many cafes be adequate to the fame extent of land. With two horfcs 

 and four oxen, the labour of an arable farm of from one to two hundred acres or more 

 may be managed without inconvenience. Someadvife the ufe of afs and mule teams 

 in fmall concerns, as highly economical -, the former being hardy and eailly kept, 

 and the latter capable of being worked to a great age. The fmall mules are 

 the moft hardy and ufeful.* 



The difeafes of horfes are fo numerous that they cannot be fully confidered in a 

 work of this nature ; but it may be ufeful to the farmer to know a few of the moft 

 appropriate remedies in thofe that are the moft common and moft frequently oc- 

 curing in his teams. Thefe are wounds , bruijes, Jprains, warbles , colds, colics JJag- 

 gen, Jlrangles, jaundice or yellows., worms, bolts, glanders, farcy, greafe, mange, 

 &c. 



In common recent wounds the beft method of treatment is to bring the fides of 

 the divided parts immediately into contact, where it can be done, keeping them in 

 that fituation by flips of adhefive plafter, as by this means they may be the moft 

 expeditioufly healed. Where there is much laceration of the parts, after fuch of 

 them as can be brought into union have been warned and cleaned by a foft fponge, 

 and placed in their proper fituations, and confined in the manner directed ; if on 

 the fir ft removal of the dreffings, which mould not be for fome days, any part re 

 main unhealed, it mould be dreflcd with lint moiftened by the tincture of myrrh, 

 adhefive plafter being laid over it. When in the procefs of healing the granula 

 tions of new flern rife above the furface, they muft be kept down by the ufe of blue 

 vitriol, once or oftener in the day, and proper comprefleSj the other dreffings 

 being wholly difcontinued. 



If the deftruction of parts be confiderable, in order to promote fuppuration, the 

 application of warm faturnine fomentations or poultices may be ufeful. And in- 



* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XXXVT 



