ON DRAUGHT OXEN. I33 



pofitively afTert the fuperiority of liorfes, and 

 even the almoft impoOTibility of making any 

 tolerable (hift with oxen ; at the fame time, 

 none of thefe gentlemen have ever made the 

 experiment ; but fuch is their opinion a priori. 

 To recapitulate, beginning with the obferva- 

 tions upon this fubje6^ in the Firft Volume : 



In Hampfhire, a confiderable farmer, keep- 

 ing an equal number of horfes and of oxen, 

 for the plough, found little or no difference in 

 their fervices. 



In Northumberland, Mr. Culley, after thirty 

 years experience, keeps one hundred and fifty 

 draught oxen, ufing them two in a plough, with 

 reins and no driver, and in carts, fmgle. 



In Middlefex, an ox-team of the flowel^ kind, 

 having little, or perhaps no corn, ploughed 

 three-quarters of an acre per day, where the 

 horfe-team did an acre, Thefe bullocks alfo 

 carted hay to London, returning as ufual with 

 dung. 



In Herefordfliire, the oxen, with very little 

 corn, beat the horfes both at plough and upon 

 the roads, which are very hilly and flony. 



In Sulfex, oxen are ufed at plough with the 

 greateft fuccefs. 



In many parts of the Weft of England, 

 oxen are preferred to horfes, for both kinds of 

 labour. 



From thefe data, every one is at liberty to 



' draw 



