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that at prefent the ox does as much Work in 

 any given time as the horfe ; but that is either 

 the fault of the matter or the man ; for the maf- 

 ter mud either have provided a horfe of very 

 flow movement, or the man muft be very idle. 

 I will undertake to find a man and pair of hor- 

 fes to plough three acres while another man and 

 a pair of oxen ploughs two acres, for twelve 

 months together* But then we muft confider 

 the difference of expence in their feeding, and 

 of the value of the carcafe of the worn-out 

 horfe and the worn-out ox, as has been re- 

 marked above. Both are very ufeful, and ought 

 always to form part of the ftock of a farm of 

 confiderable extent* 



A man in a very fmall farm, confiding of 

 from eight to twenty acres fhould work his 

 milch-cows, or fuch as he may be rearing for 

 that purpofe. By tilling his fmall quantity of 

 land to advantage, he might keep eight or ten 

 cows, and get fifteen acres of corn every year; 

 which, at 10I. per acre, would make 150/. be- 

 fides the profit of the cows, which might be 

 managed in fuch a way as to injure them ve- 

 ry little, as there are fo many to do fo little 



work, 



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