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good Duihams are so very scarce as seldom to be met with 

 for sale. No two persons can meet upon more unequal 

 terms to make a bargain than a person who occasionally only 

 has a beast to sell, and a butcher who is buying and killing 

 one or more every week, and therefore must be a pretty 

 accurate judge of ihe weight of beasts. With the aid of the 

 book or scale, this great inequality for making- the bargain 

 is in a great degree corrected the one measuring with the 

 eye, the other with the tape. The live weight of a beast 

 being ascertained, by being put on a road weighing 1 machine, 

 a pretty correct idea may be estimated of the weight of the 

 carcass, by deducting one third, and five per cent, from the 

 gross weight. 



CART HORSES. It is not necessary for ploughing 

 light, or loamy soils, to work real cart horses ; still as light 

 horses are not to be depended on for a long-, and a strong- 

 pull when wanted, it is necessary to have three strong fillers. 

 I should prefer a Suffolk or Cleveland bay team to any other. 

 For strong clay land real cart horses are best ; and by buying 

 in colts at two years old, or breeding, and selling them at 

 five or six, for London drays or other purposes, farmers may 

 get their work done, and on this plan make a profit. 

 With such a system they must be well kept ; but on light 

 soils, where the work is not hard, the cart horses do not need 

 expensive feeding. As I seldom grow oats, and never beans, 

 mine scarcely know the taste oi either ; they occasionally 

 get light tailing barley ; but their chief food during the 

 winter is barley chaff mixed with carrots, chopped very 

 small, and given at the rate of a bushel daily between four 

 horses. When my carrot crop has failed, they have cut 

 Swedish turnips, double or treble the quantity, and also 

 bran mixed with the barley or wheat chaff. As my cart 

 horses during winter work every day in the week, but one, 

 they certainly are not encumbered with flesh, but they lay 

 on a sufficient quantity of it in spring and summer when 

 soiled in the yard with vetches. If I were younger, and 

 farmed largely, I would certainly have a chart-cutter werked 

 by a horse, and have all horse food given in the manger, 

 there is then no waste, the unpalatable parts of the hay arc 

 thus consumed. 



