300 ON DRAFT CATTLE. 



in light work, and upon hard roads, they may 

 not be fo well calculated for ftifi clays, and 

 heavy lands. For my own part, I cannot boafl 

 of my good fortune with this fort, of which I 

 have tried perhaps a dozen, at different periods; 

 not one of which, to ule my offended carter's 

 phrafe, was able, when we came to whips, " to 

 *' pull a plumb-pudding off a gridiron." 



There is alfo a very material idea, with which 

 I wifh earneilly to imprefs the minds of all 

 breeders of draft cattle; it is, that in breaking 

 the colt, they always teach him to back readily, 

 and to go quietly in the (hafts. Every man 

 who has had much to do with cart-horfes, well 

 knows the abufe, and the miferics they fufTer, 

 when they have not been taught to back ; and 

 alfo the trouble and fufs there is in a prefs of 

 bufinefs, becaufe, truly, Ball is too modeft to go 

 before, and Whitefoot, peradventure, too am- 

 bitious to go behind ; whereas, they mould be 

 all fo far accullomed, as, at leait, to make a de- 

 cent (hift in any place. 



Another obfervation I addrefs to the fons of 

 humanity. There are horfes, whether from 

 fome latent and internal weaknefs, or whatever 

 occult caufe, which never can be forced by the 

 utmoft feverity, to ft rain at dead pulls, and yet 

 in all ordinary bufinefs, and where the weight 

 follows freely, and is in obvious proportion to 

 their powers, they may be as good, and as fer- 

 viceable horfes, as any in the world. The bed 



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