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 drawn from quite another calculation, is a 

 ftrong confirmation of both ; fince it would 

 have been no material contradiction had 

 they varied considerably. 



The article draught cattle is quite con- 

 fident with the former refult of the en- 

 quiry into tillage 3 and a flrong confirma- 

 tion of the remark I before made, that 

 the number of draught cattle (particularly 

 horfes, as they are more than ten to one) 

 in this kingdom, is vaftly greater than 

 it ought. The proportion of ten horfes 

 and a half to two hundred eighty-feven 

 acres, an hundred and forty-nine of them 

 arable, is vaftly beyond the neceflary 

 ftrength. Suppcfing the farm cultivated 

 in two circumftances, as it ought, viz, 

 the fallows broken up before winter, and 

 a fufficient portion of it every year under 

 clover, I will venture to aver, that eight 

 horfes, or oxen, are teams enough for' 

 two hundred acres of arable land, or fix 

 to an hundred and fifty : But this depends 

 en never plowing with more than two 

 of either. However, according to the 

 common practice of feveral whole counties, 

 feven and a half to fuch a farm would be 

 an ample allowance. It is much to be 

 regretted, that fuch a wade of ftrength 

 mould be fufTered : It is a regular and na- 

 tional lofs. 



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