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DRAUGHT HORSES, &C. S43 
4re kept. But Mr. Lechmere, ploughing little him¬ 
self, does all his draught business with four horses. 
The number of farmer’s working horses, kept in the 
county, may be about one to every 30 acres of land, 
which will amount to about i6,000 ; to which may be 
added one-fourth of the number, or 4000, as young or 
succession stock, and an equal number or 4000 more, 
kept by gentlemen for pleasure, use, or amusement; 
this naJmber may also include the young horses for 
succession, and those employed on rivers, canals, and 
for all other uses, making, in the whole, £4,000. 
A horse kept in the stable and w r orked the whole 
year, if well fed, will consume the produce of two acres 
of corn; a bushel of oats per week, is 52 bushels per 
annum, and may be reckoned the produce of one acre 
and a half, besides the seed; and 13 bushels of beans 
may be called the produce of half an acre, besides 
seed. For one quarter of the year he may be supplied 
with vetches, for which, half an acre, if a good crop, 
will suffice, and the remaining three quarters will re¬ 
quire the produce of two acres in hay making; four 
acres and a half per annum. 
Young horses for succession stock, colts, &c» being 
at grass, generally, or often, in some rough pasture, 
and seldom fed with corn, except in severe weather, 
are not so great consumers; 1 think that two acres of 
pasture, and half an acre of corn, is a fair allowance for 
such per annum ; and reckoning one-fourth of the 
latter description in this class, the consumption by 
horses will be— acres. 
19,000 horses at 4f acres per head - T -- 85,500 
6000 young ditto, at 2 \ ditto-- 12,500 
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Total ™«*» 98.000 
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