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ibuttock of the horse, and by that means kept back 
^the waggon. It was not indeed loaded, perhaps if 
it had been, he would have had some better expe^ 
,dient. If we may argue the utility of a practice 
from its extent, we must prefer drawing by the 
liorns to any other mode ; nine tenths of Europe 
make their cattle draw in this way, and from what 
I have seen of their performance, I am persuaded 
that it is to be preferred to the yoke. A builds 
strength appears to be placed in his neck, and in 
drawing in this way the whole of it is exerted ; his 
motion is not impeded, or his skin chafed as it is 
by the yoke. You will find a description of the 
yoke and strap used for this purpose, in the papers 
I left with the secretary, submitted by Mr. Noble^ 
it will not be necessary to repeat it here. In the 
mountains of Savoy I saw many cattle chiefly cows, 
drawing by the horns, npt in carts, but in waggons. 
How far the working of cows is advantageous de¬ 
serves consideration. It appears to me that k 
would be proper to have the cows of a farm broke 
to the yoke, that they might be used in harvest or 
seed time, when an ox was lame, or upon any other 
occasion when the farmer was pressed. It is ob¬ 
servable however that our cows are in general 
much smaller than those usually worked in Eu¬ 
rope. 
I would take the liberty to suggest to the Socie¬ 
ty, the propriety of having an appendix to each of 
our volumes in which we should insert matter that 
