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few, and not varied sufficiently to afford adequate 

 information. I was largely in the praclice myself, 

 very early in life, when they were much cheaper 

 than they are at present, and left it off from an 

 idea (but not founded on experiment), that it did 

 not answer, induced very much by the cheap price 

 at which I could then buy straw. Several farmers 

 with whom I have conversed on the subject > have 

 been of opinion that it answers when the horses 

 have nothing else to do ; but that it will not answer 

 at any other time ; that for back-carriage it answers, 

 but not otherwise. This confines the object so 

 much, that it becomes no longer a matter of great 

 consequence. The grand question is, will it an- 

 swer to set up a team for that purpose only, and 

 to keep it the whole year at work, upon the same 

 principle that teams are thus set up and employed 

 in marie-carting ? This is an object: for the young 

 farmer to calculate ; and the mode of doing it is 

 this, supposing three one-horse carts employed : 



Price of three carts and harness, 

 Price of three horse. ^ 



interest for this sum, at ten percent. 



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One man and two boys, 1/s. a week, 52 weeks, 

 Three hundred days work, C)00 loads, at 2s. 

 Allow.mce for beer, turnpikes on some roads, and 



sundries, I*, (yd. a cliy, 



Sup- 



