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fitable breed. However, in the ileep pulls 

 of this country, a true-drawn, fleady kind 

 is required ; but the hardy adlive breed of 

 Suffolk appears, to me, to be better calcu- 

 lated for the foil and iurface of this country, 

 than the iluggifli fen fort, which is inlinu- 

 ating itfelf into it. 



But, in a country where draught oxen 

 are of fo excellent a quality, and where the 

 drivers of ox teams are lo expert, and at 

 prefent fo partial to them, it were pity 

 almoll to introduce any other animal of 

 draught ; unlefs under particular circumftan- 

 ces *. It would be as dired: an affront to 

 a fleady good fervant, in this Diflrid:, to 

 "ordain" him to go with a team of horfes, 



as 



* I have feen a pair of young fteers, rifing three years 

 old, put before, as leaders, the fecond or third day after 

 they had been broken into yoke ; and, in a few days more, 

 made perfeclly tradtable, in this intelleflual capacity. 



The goad is the inftrument ufed in driving, when 

 oxen are ufed alone. Byt if horfes are ufed before them, 

 a ftrongkind of whip — a thong tied to the end of a pliant 

 goad is the ordinary inftrument — the identical ^^ gad'* 

 which is ufed in Yorkfhire, when oxen and horfes are 

 lA'orked together, in a fimilar manner. 



