[ 2 3° 3 

 Here is a fuperiority, but yet it is lefs 

 than might reafonably have been expected. 

 This whole companion of cattle muft be 

 reduced to fingle figures, or a decifive idea 

 cannot be gained; both draught and pro- 

 fitable cattle muft be included in one ac- 

 count, and reduced to fingle fums, or the 

 companion will not be complete : For this 

 purpofe, the proportion between them muft 

 be calculated, that is, between a horfe 

 and one of thefe cattle ; the average of 

 cows, fatting beafts, and young cattle : 

 I think it cannot be eftimated at lefs than 

 one to two : Coniidering how many young 

 cattle come into the account, and the 

 Jargenefs, variety, and nature of the food of 

 draught beafts, particularly horfes, (the mofl 

 numerous kind,) I mould not have exagger- 

 ated, perhaps, had I named one to two and 

 an half; however, to obviate objections, I 

 mall fuppofe but one to two ; that is, one 

 horfe's food, the year through, equals that 

 of two of the average of cows, fat, and 

 young cattle ; and then we muft calculate 

 the neat number of profitable cattle kept 

 by each farm ; or the remainder, after de- 

 ducting that of draught cattle. I mall 

 take the total of acres, as both grafs and 

 arable are concerned : And as proportions 

 per acre are not fo clear as whole num- 

 bers, 



