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nine horses are requisite ; and, provided you work single-handed, 
that is, with one to pitch, one to load, and one to throw off, those 
hands could do quite as much work with three or four one-horse 
carts (as the distance might require) as they would with three wag- 
gons, let them have as many horses as they may ; for a man can 
always pitch as much hay or corn in the same time upon carts as 
waggons : and with this additional advantage, with his one-horse 
cart he has but one horse to manage, while with two or three horses 
the leader will be apt to turn round and trample on the corn, or 
get into some mischief while the man is at work, unless he have 
a boy to mind them, who might perhaps be employed to advan- 
tage some other way. 
But, upon large farms, it is usual to work double-handed, that 
is, with two to pitch, two to load, two to throw off, a man to drive 
between the field and the stack, and a boy to set forward in the 
field : and before such a well-appointed band one would think 
that all the corn in a parish must soon disappear. But, as an 
example of the relative advantages of this double- hand system with 
three waggons, and the single-hand system with one-horse carts, 
I mention the following facts : — The harvest, last year, being hin- 
dered by unfavourable weather till Monday, August 19, on that 
day wheat-carrying generally commenced full drive, and more corn 
was got up in a few days than usual. On Thursday evening, mu- 
tual inquiries being made, it was found that ^Ir. Q , with 
three waggons upon the double-hand system, had got up about 
40 acres of wheat in the preceding four days; but that in the 
same four days, with four dung-carts, with one horse in each, and 
working upon the sinyle-hand system, Mr. Y had got up 26 
acres of wheat, and seven acres of peas. And I may add, at the 
same time, in something less than three days, with three one-horse 
carts and one man to pitch, I had got up all my wheat — 16 acres, 
and 5 acres of clover hay. 
When working upon the double-hand system, the waggon must 
be set, as well as may be, to accommodate Ijoth pitchers ; and if the 
man on one side has the wind, or the liigher ground, in his favour, 
the man on the other side must have a corresponding disadvan- 
tage ; but the single man pitching upon a cart may turn it about 
as may be most convenient to himself, taking the benefit of the 
wind or the higher ground as he pleases. Hence, the large 
farmer, who works upon the double-hand system with waggons, 
might gain advantage by dividing his party into two, eacli party 
working with three carts or four, as the distance might require ; 
or might get in a large quantity of corn with one team while the 
other might be at plough : and the small farmer, whether he has 
been accustomed to use two waggons or but one, might benefit by 
working his horses in carts, inasmuch as there would be no loss of 
