OCT.] HORSES OR OXEN. 4Q1 



of dung he will raise will turn out immense, provided 

 he has plenty of litter. 



THE TEAMS. 



About the latter end of this month, the horses 

 must be put to dry meat ; that is, hay, oats, and chaff. 

 The hay should be given them cut into chaff with 

 straw: as to oats, if the horses are worked con- 

 stantly, they should be allowed two bushels per horse 

 per week, which will be no more than sufficient to 

 keep them in good heart, and make amends for the 

 loss of lucerne : with this food they may be worked 

 regularly. 



But this system of feeding is expensive, and there 

 is a way to lessen the cost, which is by substituting 

 carrots instead of oats, or, at least, instead of the 

 greatest parts of the oats. If you apply the chief of 

 your carrot crop to other purposes, still you should 

 determine to allow a small quantity weekly to all your 

 horses, for the mere purpose of keeping them in good 

 health. 



HORSES OR OXEN. 



In stocking a farm, the question, whether to em- 

 ploy horses or oxen, or both, will necessarily demand 

 the farmer's attention. If he lives in a country where 

 both are common, he will probably from practice have 

 fixed his ideas sufficiently for the regulation of his 

 business ; but if he live where horses only are known, 

 he may be inclined to try oxen, in which case some 

 practical observations on the subject may not be use- 

 less, from one who has had many years experience of 

 both, and of bulls also. 



There are two cases in which oxen are certainly 



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