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are never fo well fed, dreffed, or attended. 

 Now were we to work horfes from the draw- 

 yard, we mould find them very dull and very 

 flow, to what they are when full of meat : and 

 if ever I work a team of oxen, I will mod af- 

 furedly keep them in the higheft condition, 

 both as to meat and grooming. 



Accounts alfo vary. I have been informed 

 by fome farmers, particularly by one in Hamp- 

 shire, who ufes the fame number of oxen as of 

 horfes, that he finds little or no difference in 

 their work. It is true, in that and in the adjoin- 

 ing county, oxen might be much better fubfti- 

 tuted than elfewhere ; fince it is generally 

 agreed, that in no other part of England, is fo 

 little work done, and fo (lowly, in proportion to 

 the flrength employed. I have often heard in 

 thofe counties, of five great black horfes, and 

 two men and a boy, amply provided with all 

 neceffaries for fo long and important an expe- 

 dition, being fent with a waggon, laden with 

 five quarters of wheat, to a mill five miles dif- 

 tant. My informant did not fay, whether they 

 ufed the precaution of taking a farrier with 

 them. 



Mr. Culley, and his partner, employ one 

 hundred and fifty draft-oxen in their hufbandry, 

 after thirty years experience of their utility ; 

 they ufe them in carts fmgle, and two in a 

 plough, with reins, and no driver. Mr. Cul- 

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