76] A TOPOGRAPHICAL 



A hard-working horse, if kept on hay and corn, requires daily 

 28 Ibs. of hay, and 81bs. of corn, suppose 61bs. oats, 2 Ibs. beans. 



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Hay, at a ton and a half per acre, will require of land 300 



Oats 2190lbs. at 40 Ibs. the bushel, 54j bushels, 120 



Beans 730 Ibs. at 12 Ibs. the bushel, at 4 quarters per acre, 1 20 



Land to maintain a working horse the whole year, 4 3 20 



An a<ire of oats, corn, and straw together, ought to weigh 3 tons; 

 if we allow one-half of this to a horse, and add to it the produce of 

 half an acre of oats or beans, it will be a good allowance for a horse 



in corn, 



A. R. P. 



Being about 12 Ibs. daily, (cut oat-straw included,) per annum, .... i o o 



Vetches, June, July, and August, or mown clo\er, Icwt. per day : 

 no hay would be necessary, but the above allowance of corn, .... 2 



September, October, November, at grass or aftermath clover j each 

 horse no hay still, but corn as above, 020 



For the other six months, with corn as above, give half the allow- 

 ance of hay, or 14 Ibs. per day each horse, 224 cwt. from land, o 3 



Swedish turnips washed and sliced, or carrots to each horse, i o 



On this plan, land to maintain a working horse the whole year, - 3 



A quarter of an acre of Swedish turnips, or in part carrots, would 

 afford a good allowance for six months ; for at half a cwt. per day 

 it would only require 4 tons 11 cwt. 1 qr. or 18 tons, 5 cwt. per acre, 

 which is a common crop. 



That the above saving might be made, or horses kept upon less 

 than two-thirds of the land they require at present, must be evident 

 to every one who will consider the subject ; and whoever keeps his 

 team with the oat crop wholly cut, with green food in the stable, 

 or upon carrots and Swedish turnips in part only, will approximate 

 towards this system of economy, which no doubt would bear to be 

 carried to the extent above proposed : whoever shall put it in prac- 

 tice will find their account in it. 



Horses, and Oxen, for Draught. -r-The former are generally used 

 by most farmers, being superior in quickness and dispatch, and for 

 fetching coals, lime, and other articles, from a distance; and where 

 a horse team can do the whole business, oxen are not kept, as they 

 are very inferior in point of profit to heifer or cow stock, the latter 

 producing annually a calf, besides milk, butter, and cheese, and their 

 own carcass at last; whereas the ox, if not kept to labour, produ- 

 ces only his carcass. 



But a good many large farmers, and gentlemen who farm, and 



