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fore, consider it well, that he may adhere to that 

 practice which most reduces the expence of keep- 

 ing the team. 



Food given in the stable goes much farther than 

 in the field, and also enables the farmer to raise 

 large quantities of clung throughout the summer. 

 These are both objects of great consequence ; and 

 if he appropriates a small field of lucern, near the 

 stable, to this use, he will find it by far the cheapest 

 way of keeping his horses. An acre, perfectly well 

 managed on rich good land, and amply manured, 

 will maintain four or five hordes from May to Octo- 

 ber ; but if a fanner would manage in the most 

 judicious manner, he should allot an acre to every 

 two or three horses ; by which means he will be 

 sure to have plenty to spare for any other use. 



This system of conducting the team cannot be 

 too strongly recommended; those farmers who pro- 

 vide grass or clover to turn their horses into, know 

 well the great quantity of land that must be assigned 

 them, and the high expences in general of keeping 

 horses : they should determine to embrace all me- 

 thods of lowering such great expences, arid none 

 offers more clearly, and with a greater certainty, 

 than the cultivation of lucern for summer food. 



MARES TO HORSE. 



Mares should not be permitted to have the horsfr 

 iater than the end of this month : they go eleven 

 calendar months. April is a better time for them. 



OXEN. 



