140 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



The plan that I have found to anfwer beft, is 

 this, fuppofe four were called a team, which, in 

 this county, would be enough, and that one man 

 was appointed to attend them; I would advife fix, 

 inftead of four, to be the team, as one man might 

 attend them at the fame expence as four, but I 

 would only work four of them at a time, and let 

 two of them reft two days out of the fix, by which 

 means, they would, in fact, work only four days 

 out of the feven. In the fummer months they 

 fhould have a leafow or pafture to run in, where 

 there is plenty of water and an open flied, where 

 they fhould have a bait, the day they were worked, 

 of green vetches, cut grafs, or any thing the farm 

 might furnifh. In the winter, they mould be 

 kept in a yard, with the fame fort of fried for them 

 to run into at pleafure, and here they fhould have 

 plenty of barley or oat draw, and offal turnipr, 

 and in the days of working, cut hay and ftraw, 

 mixed in equal proportions, in Read of ftraw, and 

 turnips befides. In this manner, they will, in ge- 

 neral, do extremely well, and will, at all events, 

 earn as much as the value of their keep, fo that 

 their work will ^e had for nothing. An- 

 other great advantage is, that in cafe of falling 

 lame, there is no diminution, by that means, in 

 their value, for if their fhoulders do not return a 

 profit, their ribs will ; but if a horfe falls lame, at 

 leaft, half his value is loft. So far I have de- 

 fcribed the advantage of the ox to his employer — 



but 



