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but as to nine hories to every hundred 

 acres, it is a monftrous allowance : conii- 

 dering that it includes light loams and 

 fands, it is at leaft five too many ; lb that 

 more than double all the hories employed 

 through this track of country are kept to 

 no purpofe. When good hufbandry and ex- 

 traordinary tillage are the confequence of 

 numerous teams, the objection is anfwered ; 

 but we very well know that is not the 

 cafe, by clay farmers keeping no more 

 than fand ones ; and by the depth of ftir— 

 ring being the fame in all. It is cuftom, 

 not good hufbandry, that occafions any va- 

 riations at all. To reflect, for one moment, 

 that half the horfes empolyed in hufbandry, 

 through fo coniiderable a part of the king- 

 dom, are ufelefs, is a very melancholy con- 

 fideration ; that ufelefs horfes are perni- 

 cious to the public good, is a fact indifpu- 

 table ; in no light whatever are they bene- 

 ficial; they have nothing to do with the 

 exportation of horfes, fuppofing it a trade 

 ever fo beneficial ; for it is confuming the 

 commodity one's- felf, which, in a com- 

 mercial view, ought to be converted into 

 money. It prevents the culture of a vaft 

 quantity of exportable corn. It takes great 

 tracks of grafs from fattening beafls, which 

 yield plenty of butchers meat, and confe- 

 quently enables us to export the more 



corn, 



