512 THE DAIRY.

ficiently good to keep them in high store-condition. Precise calculations on these topics, are generally more for shew than use, since circumstances are so infinitely various; but presupposing land of medial fertility, the best stock, skill, and attention; breed- ing the pigs, or at least buying the best bred young stores, and grazing, the barren cows, TI should not scruple to state the net dairy profit at fulleight gut- neas, annually, per cow.

The interesting question of HoRsES or OXEN, for slow draft, has been often and largely discussed: I have already borne my share in it, and have little to add, but that the more I see and reffect on the subject, the more I am convinced, that all the farm- ing business of the island might be performed, with equal advantages, by oxen, as by horses; nor do if know of but one objection to extending the use of oxen to every purpose of slow draft, which subsists in the presumed natural inaptitude of their feet, for long journies and hard roads. All the farming and carting-business of Italy is performed with oxen or buffaloes. The immense accession to our national stock of flesh-meat, to be derived froma general farming use only, of draught-oxen, is a considera- tion of too high consequence surely, to be post- poned, to trifling inconvenience, or mere indolent custom. But in the setting on foot this salutary reform, nothing can be so efficacious as the influ- ence and example of landlords, who would do well to follow the patriotic example of the Earl of Egre- mont.

I have paid due attention to the arguments of

Mr. Billingsley, Mr. Middleton, and Mr. Brown. In