330 ON DRAFT CATTLE. 



As to a fubftitute for horfes, furely nothing 

 could be a more proper one, than die polled 

 Galloway breed of oxen, which, if held too 

 fmall for the purpofe, might be improved by 

 polled bulls from England. I can think of no 

 better method of ameliorating the breed of 

 Highland horfes, than by the introduction of 

 the f nailed and hardieft Suffolk ilallions ; a 

 race between thefe and certain mares from the 

 northern parts of the continent, which I have 

 feen, I apprehend would make very fuitable 

 plough and cart-horfes for the Highlands of 

 Scotland. I have heard great commendation 

 of a breed of fmall and hardy cart-horfes, chiefly 

 dun or chefnut-coloured, to be found upon the 

 New Forefr., Hampmire ; but know nothing as 

 to the fact. 



The inveterate folly of ploughing with a fu- 

 perfluous number of horfes, and a fupernume- 

 rary man, and that in times when an improved 

 fyftem of hufbandry, and an encreafed popula- 

 tion, demand a proportional increafe of afliit- 

 ance, although giving ground, by degrees, yet 

 it ill fubfiits in too many parts of the country* 

 Mr. Bakewell contributed much to the im- 

 provement of his neighbourhood in this parti- 

 cular, as have many of the numerous difciples 

 of Mr. Young, in different counties. There do 

 not now want inflances of an acre of land be- 

 ing plowed in a day, by a fmgle pair of horfes, 



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