138 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



Section xxii. 



THE ADVANTAGE OF WORKING 

 OXEN. 



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IN EXT to the recommendation of the beft 

 modes of culture, the cheaper! means of effecting 

 it, deferve our attention, and, laftly, frugality in 

 the confumption of the produce. 



If it is a fact, which cannot be difproved, that 

 oxen, in fome fort of work, are equal to horfes, in 

 thefe cafes, they certainly ought to be preferred, 

 becaufe they are kept at confiderably lefs expence, 

 and lefs cafualty attends them. It would evidently 

 be very much for the advantage of this country, 

 if oxen were in higher eflimation than they are : 

 upon every farm where three teams are kept, one 

 of them, at leaft, ought to be an ox team ; for 

 though oxen would not, perhaps, entirely anfwer 

 the end, to the total exclufion of horfes, there is, 

 undoubtedly, a great deal of work that they would > 

 as before obferved, do as well, particularly in cart- 

 ing and all heavy work. In rnofl in nances, they 



are 



