3$ AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



Section ix. 



MODES OF CULTURE, 



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Jl LOUGH I NG is certainly done with much 

 greater eafe in this county than any other, and 

 much cheaper, as it does not {land the fanner in 

 above 4s. an acre for each tilth. There is no 

 inflance of more than two horfes being put to a 

 plough : the fame perfon who holds the plough 

 drives the horfes alfo with reins. ftZj* See the de~ 

 Jcriptive Jketch of it. 



The horfes are fhort and compact, but a&ive 

 and hardy, and feldom exceed fifteen hands. In- 

 flead of working them feven hours in winter 

 and eight in fummer, as they do in mofl other 

 counties, without drawing their bits, they are 

 worked eight hours in winter and ten in fummer, 

 by two journies as they are termed, which enable 

 them to do considerably more than they would by 

 one journey, as it is evident that a horfe would go 

 two twelve-mile flages a-day upon the road, with 

 as much e fe, for a constancy, as he would twenty 

 miles at one ftage ; betides, the heat in fummer is 

 more avoided by this means. The common day's 



work 



