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or team of the country ; nor only upon the 

 road, but in plowing. Even in flirring a faU 

 low, four oxen and two horfes were generally 

 confidered as requiiite. And in breaking up 

 a fallow, two men and a boy were the com- 

 mon attendants of this unwieldy expenfive 

 team. 



At prefent, there is not perhaps through. 

 out the Vale a fingle ox employed in tillage : 

 two horfes with whip-reins without a driver 

 is now the univerfal plow-team for all foils, 

 in almoft every ftate. 



Upon the road, however — that is to fay, in 

 farm- carriages— oxen are flill in ufe ; but 

 feldom more than a fingle pair to a carriage ; 

 — generally at the pole, with two or three 

 horfes at length before them. Befides, a num- 

 ber of entire horfe-teams now travel upon the 

 roads ; things which formerly were unknowi^ 

 in the country, 



On a general view, and in the opinion of 

 men whofe age entitles them to be judges of 

 the fubjc6l, there is not kept at prefent one- 

 fourth of the working oxen which formerly 

 were employed in the Vale, 



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