A comparative Statement of Oren and Horzes- fOctu

of oats Sixteen gallons per week; Mr.----A?s horzes eat per week, thirteen stones of hay, two bushels of potatoes, and Sixteen gallons of oats, each, Mr. J--"'s five year old working oxen, with a full allowance of hay, had, each ox, Six quarts of oats per day. In fifteen days four of hem eat 164 Stones, 71b. of hay,(which 1s after the rate, for each ox, of 193 stones per week) and of oats 103 gallons per week, three days after the Same oxen were put to hay only, and in Seven days eat 79 Btone 10lb. or 20 Stones each ox per week, which is only 3 of.a. Stone more than when they got 101 gallons of oats in the 5ame time.* This is a Singular circumstance, and deserving of farther investigation. An unworked ox three and a half yeargold was put to good old meadow hay the 29th of November, and eat forty-nine stones in twenty-one days, :oxr per week, 16 stones 5Ib. An idle horse(fifteen and a balf hands high) eat of the Same hay, twenty Stones in ten days, or per week, fourteen Stones; and bad no corn." The latter part, namely, that obtaining the highest balance in the comparis0n of expence, and produce, is the eriterion of agricultural ta- dents, 1 admit to be just. Let us endeavour, then, to discover on which zide this balance lies, whether on that of the ox or the horse?

In almost every district in which oxen are employed in the cultivation of the Soil, the general practice 15 to yoke them when three years, and to work them till they are SIX years old; employing for the first year, when they are weak and unac- customed to the draught, eight for each plough, and six, for the Same work, in the two Succeeding years. It is with this description of teams, therefore, that we Should make our comparisons. 1 Shall, not however, entirely overlook those for which fewer oxen are Supported. In the frst place it Seems Proper to endeavour to ascertain the

Expence of a labouring ox for one year./ 20.5... 69 Summering.--Pasture grass, with an allowance of tares,(two acresof the former, and about a quarter of an acre of the

latter) 5 4: 5: 0:0 Wintering.=--Straw-. 1210220 Good turnips about half an acre.. 215.0 4"8,50

Moxst of the land in this kingdom being unfit for the turnip husbandry, work * It is reasonable to presume that in the course of a considerable Space of

time, they would perform most work, and continue jn-the best condition,» with the allowance of corn,-