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the wheels much lefs refiftance is faid to be given in'the draught*; confequently heavier weights can be drawn.‘The bufinefs of huthandryinctheiand ts ehichy per~ farmed by this fort of imall carts where hay or corn in the{traw 1s to be carried, ladders being added. They are, however, thought inferior to the fingle-horfe cart by fome perfons who have clofely attended to them f.

Tuz Carts ufed in agriculture are made with much variety in different diftricts, but, like waggons, are probably, in general, too heavy in their conftruction to be employed with the greateft advantage. In fome places they are fo formed as to be, when empty, full as heavy as one horfe can draw, efpecially where the wheels are broad, and of courfe much refiftance occafioned by the increafed frition. Nothing can, indeed, be more injudicious than the enormous bulk and clumfinefs of the farm carts commonly employed in fome diftri¢ts; and the inconvenience and lofs. that refult from the ufe of fuch clumfy carriages are greater than can be eafily imagined. Befides, in confequence of the great height of the wheels, the nave, fpokes, and fellies, muft all be made of fuch weighty materials, in order to render them moderately{trong and firm, as not only to add a prodigious uaneceflary load to the horfes, but greatly to enhance the expence of fuch vehicles.‘The difficulty of loading the cart, too, is fo much increafed from the fame caulfe, as at leaft to double the expence that it might be performed at. And, on account of the number of horfes that are required to draw them, and the time loft by the men in filling them, as well as the damage done upon retentive fubfoils by their being torn into deep ruts, they are clearly fhewn to be lefs advantageous than thofe of the fmaller kind. Lightnefs in a carriage that 1s to go upon land, is a quality of the firft import- ance in the bufinefs of a farm; this is particularly evident when it is confidered that by fuch means, with the fame{trength of draught, more than four times the quantity ‘of work can be done in the fame length of time. Low wheels in vehicles of this fort alfo enable a much heavier load to be drawn; and of courfe render{mall carts preferable on that ground as well as thofe that have been flated. Carts, if properly con{tructed, for many kinds of weighty goods need not, independent of wheels and axle-tree, weigh more than one hundred weight, and for moft purpofes they need not exceed two hundred weight. Large waggons, as well as heavy-conftruat- ed carts, fhould, therefore, except in particular fituations, be exchanged for thofe

* Cummings’s Paper in Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. I. + Annals of Agriculture, vol, XVIII.

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