Advantages of One- Horse Carts. 
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lightly built, and carrying somewhat less loads, they are not so 
liable to poach the land when wet; and the labour of the four 
hors3s thus saved not only enables me to get more forward with 
jny work, but also to obtain more fully the advantage generally 
admitted of ploughing down the manure as soon as laid upon the 
land. 
Though it requires one person to every 25 cwt., and with a 
waggon only one to every 45 cwt., it is not less economical, as I 
find a boy 14 years old, at Sd. a day, as capable of managing one 
horse in a cart as a man is of driving two in a waggon. 
1 think I have now clearly shown that a farmer is in no way 
inconvenienced by using onl}' one-horse carts, and consequently 
86^. may be saved by their use in stocking a farm of 230 acres. 
The next advantage I derived was in building a hovel to shelter 
my farming carriages, which cost 35/. : had I used waggons and 
carts, a hovel to shelter all would have cost upwards of 70/. 
The advantage derived from their use in summer is very appa- 
rent, when, having fallow's to work and clover to carry, 1 do not 
materially retard the operation of fallowing by taking three horses 
to carry my clover. 
In harvest four of my older horses carry all my corn; and 
the four younger being severely worked on the fallows, are 
rested to prepare them for wheat seeding and other autumnal 
work. There being seldom other work during harvest for horses 
than carrying corn, it may be considered no advantage to use only 
half of them, but it gives the farmer the opportunity of changing 
horses during a long day's work ; and if any should be prevented 
from working, by accident or illness, he is not obliged to stop a 
team, which lie must do did he employ all hiS horses in waggons. 
Carts are less destructive to the roads than waggons, because 
carrying more upon four wheels than waggons they consequently 
occasion less wear — but especially in a hdly country, where it is 
necessary to lock the wheels. It is there also that one-horse 
carts arc much less dangerous than larger carts, because the shaft- 
horse having to regulate the pace down hill, can more easily do 
so with a one-horse load than with a two-horse load behind him. 
A horse is more able to recover himself, and consequently less 
liable to injury from falling, when drawing by himself than when 
another horse is pullmg before him. The next ach antage, though 
small, deserves attention, as it tends in some degree to lessen the 
annual expenses of the farmer, viz., carts being more easily turned 
and guided than waggons, the drivers are not so liable to knock 
down gate-posts or the corners of buildings. One-horse carts 
are indisjiensable on a farm, some parts of which require, on 
account of their distance from the farm-yard, more carriages for 
the conveyance of corn or manure to and fro than the number of 
