40 Implements of Hufbandry.—Carts

But notwithitanding the evident advantage of employing fingle-horfe carts m many diftrias in preference to waggons and heavy carts, it is obvious, from the nature of the roads and grounds, as well as many other circumflances in other places, that they cannot be generally had recourfe to; but that in refpect to the conftruction of them, as well as to moft other implements made ule of by the hufbandman, there mutt be a difference according to the nature of the fituation and the lands and roads on which they are to be employed. It muft, however, be ad- mitted, that im moft of thofe diftrids in which a number of horfes are put into one cart, confiderable advantages may be derived from a reduction in their weight, and from their being made in a lefs clumfy manner, as well as from the rims of the wheels being made cylindrical inftead of the ufual conical form,

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+ Cummings’s Paper in Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. TH.