200 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

In confirmation of this, T need only inform my readers,

that few inſtances can be produced of a bull being ſold for more than ffteen ES or a ram for more than five pounds. As to M s, there are but few bred; the mares are ſerved by horſes every ſpring, from the Northern counties, and without this croſs the breed would be con- temptible indeed.*

[It is not within the compaſs of my undertaking to enter upon this article at large; ſuffice it to ſay, that it 1s a thing of great conſequence to the huſbandman; and the only cau- tion to be obſerved, when he introduces an alien ſtock by way of improvement, is, not 0 change from rich land to poor;

E pian dp 015 TTE LTS or{rom a warm to a cold cumate. I

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„thly. Lefſen the number A Horses, and encourage the USt f Oxen.

[t is univerfally acknowledged that too great a portion of vod for horſes; and it is alſo as aH at 2 draught horſe, if well fed and kept in houſe thirty weeks of the year, will conſume twelve quarters of corn, and thirty cwt. of hay, beſide graſs; this may be con- ſidered as the ES ice of four or five acres of land, which, under common cultivation, would maintain nearly three men. If, Teee the riches of a country conſiſt in the

vopulation, and that population can only be

advanced by increaſing the means of ſubſiſtence, it follows,

that every man W vho keeps an unneceflary horſe is an enemy

to his country, by retar Jin> the increaſe of his own ſpecies

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A tax on ſtallions and bulls would encourage the attentive breeder, by increaſing his cuſtom, and enlarging his price, and would leſſen the )° 7 è© T

number of ill-bred and ill-ſhaped males of each ſpecies,