328 ON DRAFT CATTLE. 



moiing the ufe of oxen. All perfons concerned 

 in carriages, will do well to attend to what Mr. 

 James has (aid upon the fubjecl. 



With refpect to the Brewery, upon a fmall 

 fcale, or in the country, I can fpeak with more 

 decifion. Ail the bufmefs cf draught required 

 in fueh a fituation, may be equally well per- 

 formed by oxen, as by horfes : a confrlerable 

 improvement of that concern, fince their bul- 

 locks, after having worked a fufficient time, 

 might be fatted with their own grains. 



How far oxen might be uleful in the hurry 

 and buflle of a London porter brewery, the 

 concerned muft be the mod proper judges ; 

 and there can be no doubt that thoic gentlemen 

 would be ready enough to catch at any confi- 

 derable alleviation of the imrhenfe expence of 

 horfe-keeping, the annual amount of which, in 

 a great houfe, is a noble revenue. 



I have often wilhed it. were poffible to extir- 

 pate the whole race ofthofe Belgic locults, the 

 heavy cart-horfes, and to divide the duties of 

 flow-draft between polled oxen and call-off 

 machiners. It would be an act of mercy, and 

 fecuring a kind of retreat for thefe laft, parti- 

 cularly when employed upon a farm ; for which 

 reafon, I fhould with to fee them a fomewhat 

 w r ider and fquarer race. After all thefe fine 

 fpeculations, I fear we muft have a few Suffolk 

 punches, to draw us through, when deeply fet. 



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