C i3S ) 



the fide of the ox ; unlefs you fell the horfe 

 when he comes juft into his prime. For, if 

 you wear the horfe out, his flefh is fit only for 

 the dogs, and the carcafe with the fkin will 

 not fetch more than a dozen or fifteen mil- 

 lings, whilft an ox will fetch from 10L to 30/. 

 or perhaps much more. I think that farmer 

 the beft manager who keeps both horfes and 

 oxen for draught ; for he will thus be enabled 

 to fend the moil commodities to market from 

 any given quantity of acres of land, 



There is a fort of oxen which I have not yet 

 defcribed, which are the long-horned or Cra- 

 ven kind: thefe oxen are bad workers, but in 

 general pay bell when killed very young — at 

 the age of three years, for example. Therefore 

 they feldom draw or plough much. The Irifh 

 oxen, whith refpect to working, are very fimi- 

 larto the Craven kind. 



It has been afferted that an ox will plough 

 as much land in any given time as a horfe: but 

 that is impofilble, if the horfe be of the right 

 fort for the plough. The horfe would certainly 

 walk over three miles while the ox walks over 

 two, therefore would plough three acres of land 

 whilft the ox ploughs two acres. I believe, 



that 



