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fave money enough from his earnings, (and I 

 know of no right to limit the wages, that is, the 

 property of the labourer) in God's name, let 

 him be a farmer too. 



I have often thought, that great improve- 

 ment might be made in our general farming 

 fyftem, if fuch landlords as were (killed in agri- 

 culture, would condefcend to furnifh hints to 

 their tenants, to facilitate their acquifition of 

 the bed kinds of live (lock, and even to recom- 

 mend to their attention, the belt books upon 

 ' the fubje6l. The Annals of Agriculture, I 

 fhould apprehend, would be, as well as a cheap, 

 a mofl ufeful and amufmg monthly companion 

 to every farmer. 



This train of thinking brings me to the quef- 

 tion of draft ox f n, or ii o r s e s. I have, for 

 years paft, paid due attention to what has been 

 faid by Yaung and Marmall, upon the fubjcct, 

 and mould make fome quotations, but I love 

 by all means to promote the reading of works 

 of excellence and ability ; and fo refer fuch 

 of my readers thither, as defire thorough infor- 

 mation. My own fentiments are as follow; 

 but I ought previoufly to apprize my readers, 

 that I have myfelf never made ufe of oxen for 

 draft. In my opinion, the chief reafon why fo 

 few oxen are employed in this fervice, fubfifts 

 in its being the eftablilhed cuftom to make ufe 



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