4Q2 HORSES OR OXI [OCT. 



more beneficial than horses : first, when a fanner 

 lives in a district where there is a breed of cattle well 

 adapted to work ; and, secondly, when his farm is so 

 large that he can buy in a considerable lot of cattle 

 annually, at a small expence per /tcad, and feel no 

 inconvenience in turning oat such beasts from the 

 teams to fattening as do not work well. In both 

 these cases I have little doubt of the superiority of 

 oxen to horses. But in countries that do not po- 

 a breed of cattle well adapted for work in the state 

 of "oxen ; and on small farms whence fairs must be 

 attended perhaps at the distance of an hundred miles 

 to purchase a few, and consequently at a great ex- 

 pence per head, and possibly without land for fatten- 

 ing any, the 1 will be very questionable. In 

 such a case I should prefer the bulls of the country, 

 which are every where to be procured probably much 

 cheaper than ONCU ; are broken in with but little 

 difficulty ; which work well, and which will re- 

 cover from fatigue sooner than any ox. This I be- 

 lieve from what I have experienced, and from all the 

 information I have procured, is stating the ques- 

 tion of the comparison of horses and oxen as nearly 

 to the truth as it can be done, in few words. There 

 are, however, some works in the business of a farm, 

 in \\hirh horses are better than either oxen or bulls, 

 and theretV ous to keep a few 



The ox teams should this month be kept on straw 

 and cabbages, and, in default of the latter, on tur- 

 nips ; but cjibbarn--; are superior. Let them have 

 i straw always* ini thbw- roc! 



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