56 Tinplemenis of I. ufbandry.—Single- Hor fe Carts, of the lighter kinds, by which more work may be performed in an equal length of time, and with much greater eafe and convenience.

Single-Hor/e Carts.—The large wains, or heavy four-horfe waggons, which are yommon in many of the fouthern counties, are not only reprobated, but in a great meafure exploded in thofe of the north, where one and two horfe carts, with fome variety of conftruction, are moftly made ufe of. One horfe with thefe carts draws from twelve to twenty-four hundred weight, and on good road fome. times thirty, with great facility. In the moft improved cart of this fort, the bottom, when placed on the axle, projects, on each fide, over the inner heads of the naves, fo as nearly to touch the{pokes of the wheels; from which acquifition of breadth the capacity of the cart is much increafed, while the fide ftandards, by being brought nearer to the perpendicular fituation, are enabled to fuftain confiderably more weight. This is termed the Clofe or Coup Cart, and is about five feet three inches in length, four feet in breadth below, and four feet three inches above, having a depth of one foot three inches, and containing about a cubic yard. The wheels are commonly about fifty inches in height, and the axle-tree moftly formed of iron, though wood will anfwer the purpofe tolerably well.

A very intelligent agriculturift, who has paid much attention to the importance of carts in hufbandry, found in conftrudting fingle-horfe ones that the capacity of waggons was by no means a juft rule for them. From thofe with which he was acquainted, containing in the bed, or duck, ninety-fix cubical feet, being twelve feet long, four feet wide, and two feet in depth; it was fuppofed that to give one horfe the fourth of the load of four, it would only be neceffary to give them a{pace of twenty-four cubical feet, or to make them four feet by three, with a depth of two feet; but it was foon obferved that the power of a horfe was fo much greater in working fingly than in a team, that they might be enlarged fo as to have the dimen. fions of five feet one inch in length of buck, three feet feven inches in breadth, two feet in depth, and to contain thirty-five cubical feet and a fra&tion. This places ina ftriking point of view the advantage fuch fmall carts have over large ones in the quantity of work performed*.

On the fubject of fingle-horfe carts it is alfo obferved by another praétical writer, ‘* that thofe which are in ufe in various parts of England appear to be the beft cal- culated for the purpofe of carrying all kinds of goods, except fingle trees, blocks of itone, or any other article whofe weight may be too much for the{trength. of fuch carts, and which cannot eafily and without lofs be divided into feparate loads; in

all or moft places where the roads are particularly bad, either arifing from foft

* Annals of Agriculture, vol. XVILL

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