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are apt to get into a habit of leaning a

which their progreſſive motion is much impeded. all methods, that which is praiſed in Portugal, Flanders, ſome part of Ireland, and other countries, namely, working them by the bead and horn, is, in my opinion, the beſt.

I once ſaw on the farm of Lord SHANNON, near Cork in Ireland, three ploughs at work on 2 ſtrong ſoil, drawn each by a pair of oxen abreaſt, in a manner ſimilar to the application of€ horſes in Norfolk. The harnefſs confiſted of 2 lone rein of untanned leather, which was fixed to the

yoke, and then interſeéted the horns two or three times;

after which it paſſed from the back oû

f the horn over the »rehead; to prevent the bruifing of which, a matting was placed of ſuÑicient thickneſs to ſecure it from injury. In this way the animals RE rather than drew, and with ap- parent eaſe ploughed an acre a day each without a driver,

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lordſhip informed me, that two moderate-fized oxen had,

turning at land-end A as much dodllity as

ſome time before, drawn home from the corn-field,(a diſ- t tance of two miles) in a French ſkeleton cart, as many D

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ſheaves of wheat as weighed upwards of t

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ee ton, and with 7

no apparent adire exertion. SHEEP.

There are two ſorts of ſheep in this country, the one a native breed, without horns, well made, and covered with a thick fleece of wool, weighing in general ſeven or eight pounds; the other a ſmall horned ſheep, called Exmoor ſheep, bought, when hoggits, at South-Molton market,

(April 12) at about ten ſhillings to fourteen ſhillings each, and fattened on turnips. The úrfſt 1s a valuable ſort, not much unlike the Leiceſter breed; and their fleeces may be conſidered as a moſt profitable article to the breeder, as

they

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