536 OCTOBER. 



THE TEAMS. 



About the latter end of this month, the horses 

 must be put to dry meat ; that is, hay, oats, and 

 chaff. The hay should be given them cut into 

 chaff with straw : as to oats, if the horses are 

 worked constantly, they should be allowed two 

 bushels per horse per week, which will be no more 

 than sufficient to keep them in good heart, and 

 make amends for the loss of lucern : with this 

 food they may be worked regularly. 



But this system of feeding is expensive, and there 

 is a way to lessen the cost, which is by substituting 

 carrots instead of oats, or, at least, instead of the 

 greatest part of the oats. If you apply the chief of 

 your carrot crop to other purposes, still you should 

 determine to allow a small quantity weekly to all 

 your horses, for the mere purpose of keeping them 

 in good health. 



HORSES OR OXEN. 



. In stocking a farm, the question, whether to em- 

 ploy horses or oxen, or both, will necessarily de- 

 mand the farmer's attention. If he lives in a coun- 

 try where both are common, he will, probably, from 

 practice, have fixed his ideas sufficiently for the re- 

 gulation* of his business; but if he live where horses 

 only are known, he may be inclined to try oxen, in 

 which case some practical observations on the sub- 

 ject may not be useless, from one who has had 

 many years experience of both, and of bulls also. 



There 



