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other Diflridls y and become a prolific 

 fource of the moil valuable order of inha- 

 bitants a cultivated country can polTefs, 



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BEASTS OF LABOR. 



Introductory Remarks. 



THE Diflria under furvey may be faid 

 to be undergoing a change, with refpe<ft to 

 this department of its Rural Economy : a 

 change which has been going on, flowly, 

 for the laft twenty years j but w^hich has, 

 as yet, made little progrefs. 



Formerly, carriage of every kind was 

 done entirely on the backs of horses j 

 except in harveft, .when fledges, drawn by 

 oxen, were fometimes ufed ; alfo heaps of 

 manure, in the field, were dragged abroad 

 in fmall cart fledges, either by oxen or 

 horfes. Twenty years ago, there was not. 

 a " pair of wheels" in the country -, at leaft 



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