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Advantages of One-Horse Carts. 
horses requisite for the working of the farm would be sufficient 
to draw if worked in double harness. 
I do not consider that there is any saving of manual labour in 
the use of one-horse carts; and if the distance is so great from 
one place to another that a continued chain of carts cannot be 
kept up, the advantage gained is only the difference between two 
one-horse cart loads and one two-horse waggon load. But should 
both ends be kept employed in all our most busy times, such 
as bean-sowing, potato-setting, oat-sowing, turnip-sowing, hay- 
harvest, corn-harvest, wheat- seeding, and whenever other work is 
in hand besides carting, the farmer can gain or save the labour of 
as many horses as the number of the one-horse carts he employs 
amounts to. 
The most economical application of horse-labour should be 
the study of all farmers. 
Whittlesea, Peterborough. 
XXXV. — On the Farming of Cornwall. By VV. F. Karkeek. 
Introduction. 
1. It is scarcely more than a century since the "mine" and 
the "seine" almost exclusively engaged the attention of the 
greater part of the inhabitants of Cornwall, and, as implied in 
our county toast, " Fish, tin, and copper,'' were considered the 
principal means to be relied on as sources of wealth and 
maintenance for its numerous population, \\hilst agriculture was 
neglected and supposed to be a secondary object. Only within 
the last fifty years has any claim been made by the county to 
be considered as an agricultural one ; but great and permanent 
advances in the path of improvement have been made during 
that period, and examples of skilful cultivation may now be 
found dispersed over its surface which v.ould not disgrace the 
best cultivated district in England. These, however, even were 
they more numerous, are not calculated to produce such an effect 
on the mind of a stranger coming from a better and more richly 
cultivated district, as cases of gross mismanagement ; and hence, 
unfortunately, the latter occupy such a ])rominent feature that 
the whole of the farming of Cornwall is frequently supposed to 
be considerably worse than it really is. To use the words of a re- 
spected correspondent, an extensive landed proprietor, " we are im- 
proving, I hope ; but we are in a transition state, passino^ from a very 
slovenly course of husbandry, by very unequal and incomplete de- 
grees, to a better." It will be seen m the course of the ' Report ' 
that our natural advantages as an agricultural county are far from 
