AGRICULTURAL MtfSfiUM. ffl 



But to make a full and lair com^)iit:^son, it must be, 

 continued for at least five years. 



The first cost of four horses, will be as above ^!5000(l 

 Geering, at # 5.50 each. - - 22.()0 



Grain, exclusive of hay, for five years at 

 :^lc<6.50 per annum. - - - 682.50 



Add for casualties at ^ 11.2» per annum. 5o/i5 



^ 1060.7$ 

 From which deduct, for the advantage of v'\d- 

 Inorat j^2ii.60 per annum for five years. ^ 112.50 



For lour old horses sold at the end 

 of five years for about ^ 25 each. 100.00 



212,S0 



And we have the amount of expence for four 

 Ik/rses for five years. .... - /^ 848 25 



On the contrary, six oxen at f 35 each. I 210.00 



Geerino at 1 50 each. - • 9.00 



Gx-s»jn at $ 15. each. « - - 75.(a) 



g 294.09 

 From which deduct the price of six old oxen, 

 sold at the end of five years at $ 25. each. - 150 00 



And there will remain the cost of 6 years 

 labojir of six oxen. - - . ^ 144.00 



And that of five years labor of four horses is 818 25 



Leaving in favor of the oxen a balance of. # 704 25 



A saving on a farm, in the one article of a team, in the 

 space of five years, of more than^^TOO, is certainly worth 

 our attention. It would lay in a fine stock of oxen, and 

 discharge some of the pld store debts. Let us consider 

 our situation, fellow citizens our forests cleared our soil 

 exhausted, our old fields whitened w.ih short grass, the 

 eifect of poverty. Is it not a subject worth our consider- 

 ation how to extricate ourselves. Perhaps, one of the 

 firsi steps to remove ti^s evil, is t9 retrench our expences^ 



