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four men filled, and did regularly 32 loads a day, eigljt 

 loads per man being the stint ; the distance to the heaps 

 334 yards. Each load made eight heaps, and to discharge 

 it the easier, there is a false tail-board in the cart. The 

 tumbrel does not separate from the shafts, as in our com- 

 mon ones in unloading ; the shafts are fixed, and rise in the 

 air, the traice horses drawing hy the ends of the shafts, 

 and the thill horse by short traices fixed at the other end 

 of the sliafts. The price given to fill and spread, 25s. for 

 120 loads, or 2id. each. I examined the heaps with particubr 

 attention, and guessed them at four bushels each, and then, 

 asking the men their opinion, they also guessed the same. 

 Surely it behoves the gentlemen and farmers of this coun- 

 try, to reconsider this business entirely ; for seven horses 

 (and there are often eight) to draw 32 bushels of clay, 

 seems preposterous ; 4I busliels a horse are a load, which, 

 ^vhen you come to divide it, seems such a system of trifling, 

 as to be worthy only of children ; hut viewed in that bun- 

 dle of logs called a tumbiel, witli great lumbering wheels, 

 the machine and the load seein more congruous, and to 

 the eye there appears somctiiing for the horses to draw ; 

 bat calculatioii tells us there is nothing but a heavy, 

 ill-contrived, unmechanical cart, lessening the power 

 of the horses, till one draws not nxpre than a man would 

 push in a wheel-barrow. All this evil, and an enormous 

 one it is, springs from this circumstance of uniting many 

 Iiorses in the same draught, to form a team, which is ne- 

 ver analyzed and well examined, but you find it a bar- 

 barity worthy only of savages. Take a light cart, sucii 

 as I use and have recommended,- or even the little car of 

 an Irishman ; put one of these horses in It, and see if 4^ 

 bushels will be the load ! ! See if you are content with 

 9; try if you cannot carrv 12; try again at 13^, or the 

 treble of what your horse does at present ! ! ! Ihus one 



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