is caused by the numerous and supern\imerary horses 

 which small farmers are so anxious to have ! The 

 Secretary to the Farming Society of Ireland, in his 

 able and most interesting report of the agriculture of 

 Flanders, tells us that 8 horses perform the work of 

 200 acres on one farm there. Thirty or forty 

 horses would be required on the same extent of 

 land, if divided into small farms in Ireland — ^and we 

 are to remember too, that those eight horses do at 

 least twice as much woi'k and twice as well as your 

 thirty or forty horses. What hay and oats might 

 be sold by many of you, which is unprofitably 

 given to your long-leggeil, Ught bodied, and cat-ham-, 

 med cavalry ! besides, your little capital is often sunk 

 in the purchase of one of these animals, and if he 

 dies from bad treatment or any other cause, your 

 rnin is immediate, as you conceive ; believe me the 

 loss in this case would often prove a gain, if you 

 would give up all thoiights of buying another. 



I know a tradesman, holding a small farm which 

 requires little horse labour — he can earn 2a\ a day at 

 his trade, whenever he pleases to work — yet thiij 

 horse-madness has so bewitched him, that he keeps fi 

 horse, which he himself always leads or drives "jvlienr 

 ever this same animal is worked, although he could 

 hire a horse, car and driver, for '2s. a day, and he 

 loses his own wages of 2*. every day that he iises 

 him, over and above the keep of the beast, who con^ 

 «umes, 07- ought to consume, if properly fed, the pro» 

 duce of two acres every year. Is not this positive 

 jnadness ; There is no milch cow, as you may con» 

 jecture during the winter months in the yard of this* 

 jniscalculating tradesman. 



Note — Farms too small to afFord constant work to a pair of 

 liorses, brood mares, bullocks or Leifers, and too large for spgtj^ 

 iiHsbandry, are the most unprofitable and incouveuie.uj.. 



