HORSES AND OXEN; 481 



Mr. Ferrier, of Hemsby, is very sensible of the 

 importance of soiling: his team had not been out all 

 summer when I was with Iilm in September. 



Mr. Francis, at Martham, in common with every 

 good farmer in the neighbourhood, uses tares for soiling 

 horses, but thinks clover better, and much used every 

 where. 



Mr. JofiNsoNj of Thurning, soils on clover, in prefer- 

 ence to vetches. 



Mr. England, of Binham, has tares enough for bait-' 

 ing his teams: does not sow turnips the same year after 

 them. ' . /, 



iVIr. Priest, of Besthorpe, cuts all the hay he uses, for 

 eight horses and fourteen bullocks, and iias no .doubt of 

 its answering greatly. 



Mr. M. Hill, does the work of 1300 dcres with forty 

 horses, but he has 200 of pasture. /• ■• ■, 



In 1784, Mr. Coke worked 12 oxen in harness foE 

 carting, and found them a very considerable saving, in com? 

 pari^on with horses. , < 



1803. Mr. Coke gave them up some years past, from 

 the difficulty of shoeing tlicm, but more from the invete- 

 rate prejudices of the nien against them. He was not, 

 however, convinced that the praflice might not in many 

 cases be profitable. 



Mr. Drew, of Ijexv^-ell, tried oxen, and gave them 

 up from being troublesoiiic in a wa(;gon. Mr. Clark, 

 of Denver, used them many year?, but gave them up at last. 



Mr. Blvan had them for a few years, and then gave 

 them up. 



Mi. Purdis, of Eggmore, works 32 Devonshire oxen 

 in yokes and bows, four to a plough. 1 saw them at work, 

 and was much pleased to see tliem step out so nimbly, as 

 to be fully equal to the horses ploughing in the saiue field, 



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