Advantages of One-Horse Carts. 
379 
sosDon as the practicability of their doing so without tlisadvantage 
is made plain to their understandings." And although one good 
four-horse waggon mav, for many purposes, be very useful ujion a 
farm, carts constructed to contain about 13 bushels, and to discharge 
the load by shelving, with moveable side and foreboards, to make 
them capable of containing about double the quantitv, when rough 
dung, &c., are to be carried, and upon each of which, at other 
times, when hay or corn is to be gathered in, may be fixed a 
frame as wide as the wheels, or as much wider as may be thought 
fit, and which also may be of any useful length, provided the 
shafts are proporlionably long, wdl answer all the purposes pro- 
posed so well, as to render upon a great majority of farms several 
waggons for carrying hay and corn an unnecessary incumbrance. 
Rolvenden, Kent, February 26, 18 io. 
XXXIII.— Essay on Gorse. By Owen Owen Roberts, of 
Bangor. To which Lord Kenyon's Prize was awarded. 
Gorse, Whins, or Furze. — Throughout the length and breadth 
of the United Kingdom there are few localities in which this 
prickly evergreen is not to be ft)und. 
In the northern districts of the principality of Wales, and more 
especially in the counties of Carnarvon, Anglesey, and Denbigh, 
it has, time immemorial, been in general use as food for horses. 
It has also, occasionally, and when other provender was scarce, 
been employed as food for horned cattle. VVhere, either by itself 
or in conjunction with other provender, it has been used as food 
for milch-cows, the results have been highly satisfactory. It has 
given to the milk and butter a fine colour and a rich flavour. 
Those who have applied it to this purpose are of opinion that 
cows yield a better profit than when they are fed v, iih the best 
hay, or even with turnips. The butter is in all respects of an 
improved quality (see Appendix, 1, 2, 9). 
Analysis fully substantiates the correctness of this opinion 
(App. 13). The results, as to the quantity as well as to the 
quality of the nutritive matter contained in this plant, will bear a 
favourable comparison with any of those vegetable substances 
which are noticed in Sir H. Davy's Agricultural Chemistry 
(p. 142), and which are most highly and most universally appre- 
ciated as provender. 
The experience of its utilitv as food for sheep has hitherto 
been very limited. This has chiefly arisen from the little atten- 
tion bestowed by Welsh farmers upon the feeding of that class of 
live stock. Where, however, the experiment has been made, in 
VOL. VI. 2 D 
