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time before dinner, to dress their sallads, for 
which operation he receives a piece of gold. 
Let us impress upon your Lordship's mind, 
that when the Minister put his finger upon 
‘ horses' employed in agriculture, he was not 
aware that the fanner must add every farthing 
of it to the price of his corn, cattle, and other pro- 
diidiions, zvhicb must ultimalely he laid upon the 
' consumers of all descriptions . 
We have already said a few words upon 
the comparative benefits of employing oxen 
and horses in agriculture, and there we would 
' have left that subjedl if Mr. Brooke had not 
'Called forth a further remark upon it by his 
recommendation to keep oxen till they are 
six or seven years old. Could any theorist 
upon earth have hit upon a plan of reducing 
the number of neat cattle, and consequently 
enhancing their price in this island, so effec- 
tually as by keeping them to nearly double 
the necessary age ? If we can get an ox to 
grow to a full weight at four years, at least 
one-third more may be produced upon the 
same spot in a given time, than if we keep them 
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