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the method in which 2 carts are ufed, with 

 only as many horfes, is this : In harveft, 

 the fhocks, or ftooks of corn, are laid in 

 clufters when reaped, inftead of the regular 1 

 manner of difpofmg them in rows; and 

 when they are carried, one cart is fixed in 

 the midft of a clufter, and loaded by a lad, 

 while the other is drove off with the horfes 

 to the barn; the filler (thill-horfe) being 

 changed of one cart into the other. It is 

 moft convenient, in carting dung, &c. as 

 there is then no want of moving or being 

 on the cart to lay the load. This method I 

 have often feen ufed in both cafes ; but it 

 is only in cafe the field is either at a diftance 

 from the barn, or a hill is to go up to it ; 

 otherwife, each horfe draws his cart alone, 

 without changing. 



More than two horfes I mall not, on any 

 account, allow fuch a farm as I am now 

 confidering ; if any profit attends it, I am 

 certain it can only arife by keeping no more 

 horfes than was before kept on 25 acres, 

 and making them work hard the year round 

 for their living. But I mould remark, 

 that, in the common management of little 



farmers, 



