OF LIVE STOCK. 



for a farm, that I cannot but submit them to the reader, as 

 justlv entitled to peculiar attention. 



On the farms occupied by these gentlemen, there are 

 kept fifty working horsrs,* and twenty-eight working oxen. 

 The oxen are broke in when three years and an half old. 

 Two are used in a plough or cart, in leather collars and 

 harness, in every respect the same as horses. They are 

 laid off to be fed for the butcher, when six years and an 

 half old, and consequently are only worked three years. 

 During the summer months they are fed on grass : but from 

 th-j i-nci of harvest to the end oi May, if the Swedish turnips 

 hold out so Jong, their constant food is turnips and straw. 

 They never taste any other food, except a small quantity 

 ol hay in the field while the ploughman eats his dinner. 

 Upon this food, they keep in excellent condition, and are 

 capable of doing a great dea! ot work : and when along 

 with the horse-ploughs, they never lose a turn. In the win- 

 ter months, when the days are short their whole work is 

 taken at once; in spring, they come home in the middle of 

 the day, and get as many turnips as they can eat. They 

 are peculiarly calculated for breaking up coarse ground. 



Mr Walker of Mellendean has three oxen to every 

 plough, and by working only two at a time, and constantly 

 changing them, every ox works only four days in the week. 

 The saving, even on that system, is considerable. Each 

 horse he calculates costs L.32: 7: 6, consequently a pair 

 L.64, 15s.; each ox L.I 4; three oxen, therefore, cost L.42. 

 There is thus a saving of L.22, 15s. per plough. Where 

 the expence of keeping horses is higher, the profit by the 

 use of oxen is proportionally more. Besides, while the horse 

 (as Mr Walker of Wooden well observes), is yearly dimi- 



* The horses are kept for road work, and distant carriage.. 



