22 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 qver the green wheat in fpring, he though! 

 much better than dung in Autumn. The 

 latter is raifed by his teams of oxen in the 

 winter, while they are eating the ftraw of 

 the crop $ of thefe he has thirty^two, alfo 

 five cows, and about twenty young beads of 

 different forts, which, through the Summer, 

 are fed on the commons, and alfo part of 

 the Winter, and, in the fevereft weather, 

 are taken into the farm-yard. Befides this 

 flock, he has generally about twq hundred 

 iheep, of a very indifferent fmall kind. Thefe 

 go the whole year on the commons, and 

 are regularly folded on the wheat fallow i 

 which manuring he finds much fuperior to 

 the dunging. Refpefting the profit he 

 makes by his cattle, he informed me, that 

 a team of four oxen yielded a profit, by the 

 year, of about 3!. exclufive of their fpod ; 

 fo that he reckoned his ploughing to coft 

 him no more than the labour, the ufe of the 

 plough, and that pf the harnefs ; whereas, 

 if he ufed horfes, he mould lofe every year 

 much by the (fecay of their value, inflead 

 of gaining by their growth. The ox teams 

 he keeps two years, and then fells them to 

 the graziers on the rich meadows on the 



