GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. 



page 32, is that 182 horses suffice for the cultivation of 



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8841 acres of arable land, and 2549 acres of pasture : 

 2133 acres, nearly quarter of the arable land, being in 

 clover and grass, 2076 in green and fallow crops, and 4632 

 acres in grain crops. This corresponds to a pair of horses 

 to every 56 acres or thereabouts of arable land, and every 

 15 acres or thereabouts of green and fallow crops. 



We add in another table the experiences of the eight farms 

 just enumerated. 



Adding up these, with the exception of No. 8, we have 

 a total of 60 horses employed on 1565 arable acres, and 

 997 of permanent pasture. Here we have a pair of horses 

 to every 52 acres of arable land, and every 13 acres of 

 green or fallow crop ; but there is in these cases a much 

 larger proportion of old pasture held with the farms than 

 with those previously enumerated, and a certain quantity 

 of horse labour is required for that. 



If we take from the seventh farm in the above table, the 5 

 horses required for its arable land, then it will appear that 

 a pair is needed for every 150 acres of pasture and sub- 

 tracting that number accordingly, for the total amount of 



