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farms will possibly admit. The horse is a useful and 
valuable animal in the service of man, and his ser- 
vices are indispensable to his comfort and con- 
venience; but he is the most unjirofitable stock upon 
your farms. * 
1. Because his high price exceeds all proportion to 
his productive labours. 
2. His expense in raising, exceeds all probable 
calculations upon the profits of his sales in market. 
3. His support requires such feed as robs your dai- 
ry ; your beef-cattle and hogs, for fattening. 
4. He yields you no substitute for your dairy, beef 
and pork. 
5. He is more liable to disease and accidents, than 
other stock, and, at his death, becomes a dead loss. 
He does not like the sheep, even leave a fleece in pay- 
ment. 
Whenever you keep or raise a horse, let him be a 
good one; such, and such only, will afford you any 
profit, either upon your farm, or in market. 
I shall conclude my remarks upon arable lands, with 
the following observations of Sir John Sinclair. 
“ The advantages to be derived from the alternate, 
or convertible husbandry, cannot be loo much dwelt 
on. None but those who have tried it, can be fully 
aware of the vast improvements effected, by laying 
down old ploughed lands into grass, as well as con- 
verting old pasture lands into arable ; (see my re- 
marks, article Pasture.) If one million of acres of 
old tillage lands were gradually laid down into her- 
bage, and the like extent of old pasture, broken up 
and put under a judicious rotine of crops, it would 
probably be the means of supplying the public mar-' 
ket with two million stones of beef and mutton addi- 
tional, and three million quarters of grain. Under 
that system, the crops are always abundant, and the 
soil is kept in a constant slate of increasing fertili- 
ty.” — Code of husbandry. 
Again, “ If one half of a farm be kept under arlili 
