It mould be obferved, that oxen bear no 

 proportion to horfes, in number j (6 few 

 are ufed, that one might almoft call 

 thefe numbers, horfes ; but where oxen 

 are in ufe, it is totally in large and mid- 

 dling farms : Nor 'thumber land particularly, 

 where mod of the very large farms in this 

 lift are fituated. 



Upon thefe proportions it may be re- 

 marked, that the great excefs of draught 

 cattle, which was proved in another place 

 to be fo extremely detrimental to the king- 

 dom, without benefitting the culture of it, 

 here appears to be owing almoft entirely to 

 the fmaller farms. In thofe of two hun- 

 dred 



