2/8 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 ferentj they muft be kept up with oats, at 

 five times the expence of the potatoes that 

 are given to the oxen, with another vaft 

 diftinclion, that, in fie ad of ft raw, they muft 

 have hay ; then the oxen take no dreffing, 

 fo that one man is able to attend very 

 many of them 5 but horfes require a large 

 expence in labour for this. Another cir- 

 cumftance is, the difference of ihoeing and 

 harnefs ; the oxen have no (hoes, and their 

 harnefs is much cheaper than that of a 

 horfe. Laftly, the greateft fuperiority of 

 'all, perhaps, remains to be mentioned; that 

 I can breed my oxen, and make an advan- 

 tage by the breeding fyftem, beiides getting 

 the labour of the beafts. I have now above 

 an hundred and thirty cows, which yield 

 me, one year with ano:her, one hundred 

 calves ; fifteen of the cow calves are every 

 year fet apart for fupplying the dairy, and 

 all the reft, both male and female, are 

 caftrated ; I work both, from three years 

 old to five, and then turn them into my 

 richeft meadows and paftures to fatten, 

 driving them from thence to the refpedive 

 markets, where they are fold. In this fy- 

 Item I reckon I get all my work for the ex- 

 pence. 



