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his hay-yard over his buffaloe-ſtables. The expence of vaulting, does not exceed that of building and roofing common cow-houſes; and the vaults have this eſfſential advantage or preference, that they require no repairs.

Mr. Hunter has cauſed his buffaloes to be trained to work in a cart; at firſt they were reſtive, and would even lay down; but now they are ſteady and ſo tractable, that they are driven through the ſtreets of London in the loaded cart. Theſe animals do not draw greater loads, than oxen of the ſame ſize and weight; and when one conſiders, to what valuable purpoſes, oxen can be employed in the various labours of the huſbandman, it is matter of regret, that they ſhould be ſo ſeldom uſed in England for draught*.

* The practice of working oxen, as well in the drauglit as the plough, uſed formerly to prevail more in the Northern parts of England than it does at this day. The uſe of horſes has been ſubſtituted in their ſtead, in conſequence of the greater diſpatch with which they perform their work. But ſtiff, heavy, clay-ſoils are never ſo well ploughed, nor to ſuch good purpofe, without the aid of the bullock, as they would be with it. In regard to Middleſex, Dr. Wilkinſon, of White-Webb-Houſe, near Enfield, has uſed an ox team for theſe laſt three years, and chiafly depended on them for breaking up 100 acres of waſte land on Enfield-chace. He purchaſed ſix in Suſſex, at the price of eleven pounds per head. The ſevereſt labour being now finiſhed, in the firſt breaking up the turf, he now uſes only four in a plough; and when the land is well worked, a pair is fufficient for a light plough. On a large farm, an ox-team will always be ſerviceable for ſtrong work, or for dung-carting from the fold- yard; but they will not ſtand conſtant work on very hard roads. Dr. Wil- kinſon has frequently had them ſhod, but they ſoon caſt their ſnoes. He works them in collars in preference to yokes. In general the Doctor conſiders them not ſo applicable to the fyſtems of huſbandry purſued in Middleſex, which includes ſo much road-work in going to, and returning from, the Lon- don-market.— Mr. Byng(member for the county) has lately had an ox-team from Suſſex, which he works in the neighbourhood of Mims and Potter's Bar. Dr. Wilkinſon calculates that ſix oxen generally conſume a load of hay in nine days: he never gave them oats; but has obſerved that they will not ſtand hard fabour unleſs the hay is of a very good quality.

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