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are lasting and profitable; and then one might allow sufficient bordure for chap. vrr„a mound of any thiclcnefs, which may be the first charge, and well sup- ■ported and rewarded by the culture of the land thus inclosed.
For example: Suppose a man would take in five hundred acres of good• land, let the mounds be of the wildest ground, as fittest for wood: Two
44 and twelve of straw; and on the days of rest, they range as they like in the straw-yards;
“ for it is to be observed, that they are not confined to hot stables, but have open“ sheds, under which they eat their cut provender, and are generally left to their choice“ to go m and out. Under this management, as four oxen generally plough- an acre a day,
“ and do other work in proportion, there can be no doubt but their advantage is very great“ over horses, and the result to the public highly beneficial.
44 The Oxen which are brought on in succefsion, run the first summer in the Park, and in44 the leasows and temporary straw-yards in the winter;, by which temporary straw-yards, X '
“ would have it understood, that they are made in different places, so that the manure“ which they make may be as near to the spot where it is wanted as pofsible.
44 The forty oxen which go off are summered in the best pasture, and finished with tur- -
44 neps the ensuing winter.-The usual way has been to draw the turneps, and to give
44 them either stalled or in cribs placed in the yard, with plenty of straw to browse and lie“upon: but last winter an experiment was tried, which answered extremely well, and44 will be again repeated next winter: this was, penning the oxen by day upon the turnep-44 land, in the manner that sheep are penned, with this only difference, that the turneps“ were thrown up into cribs, instead of being left to- be trodden into the ground; and in44 the nights they were driven into a yard, with,a temporary shed well littered with rushes,.
“ fern, and leaves, and turneps and barley-straw given to them in cribs. They thrived44 very fast, and every one of them made at least eight loads- of good muck in the night-“ yard, besides the benefit done in treading and dunging on the land in the day-time,
“ which was very great; the. soil being very light.--The result of the Ox system is, that
44 charging the ox for his agistment the first year, for the value of the grafs and farneps44 the last year, and putting what he has in three intermediate years as an equivalent for44 his labour, after every allowance for risk, each Ox will pay at least twenty per cent.
“ profit.-In what instance does a horse produce so much ?
44 I do not allow that the Ox can be used on all soils; upon a very stony soil he cannotr“ nor can the horse in all places be wholly excluded from Husbandry ; but every occupier•* of a large farm may at least use some Oxen to very great advantage. They are all44 worked at Windsor in. collars, as their step is found to be much more free than when“ coupled together with, yokes; and they are found to do their work with much greater“-ease in collars than in yokes, which ought every where to be exploded.
44 The different kinds of Oxen are in some measure suited to the soil.—Upon the Norfolk» 4 Farm, which is a light soil, the Devonshire sort are used; upon the Flemish Farm, where“ the soil is strong.and heavy, the Herefordshire ; and in the Park, where the businefs is“carting, harrowing, and rolling, the Glamorganshire. -—They are all. excellent in their .
“ different stations.
“ It may not be improper to mention a very simple method which has been discovered,...
“ of first training them to the collar, which is nothing more than putting a broad strap round