3803.] A comparative Siatement of Oven and Horses« 239

L439 4.

oxen are, in many districts, Supported with hay and straw,(mostly with the former) and even where the straw 18 good, thirteen Stones of hay, per week,

will'be required to continue each ox>+" 7 in proper condition, which for thirty weeks, at five pence per Stone, will-? amount to 4 4 av 14 BOL“ TER 6 IEE EN EWIET 0 0.26: wl 406.8„€ "12 769% 6 One half of this is the average expence' IE Eg 9 Interest on the price of the ox at five per“cent per „annum d 2. Z. v«] REEG IMEA(G| Harness, Shoeing,&c. 3 I 6 1722600 ; 13.019 Deduct the increased value ofan 0X for one year 4 ä& 2:00:40 Annval expence of an ox--without corn ä il 6 9 (CIEBEGAAEIGGR ZID) Expence of a labouring horse. Summering.--Pasture, grass, upwards of two acres 58 0 OQO Wintering.----Straw 015 0

Hay fourteen weeks, fifteen Stone

per week, at five pence per Stove 4 7 6 Oats,(partly: Small dressed out if

those Sent to market) 72 bushels

at 15. 1id. per bushel. E 618 0 Harness, Shoeing,&C. ß< 110 Q Annuity to pay off 261:(the pur-

chase price of a four year old

horse) in fouteen years T 4 2/12"'6x

Expence of a working horse for one year..«. 2t 3 0x

* This cannot, reasonably, be deemed too great an allowance, when we consider thatthe above experiments have proved that working oxen, Supported on bay and a considerable quantity of corn, conzumed weekly, ninetcen itones and a quarter per 0x. j

+ In ſeveral parts of the country good draught horſes, fouf years old, may be purchased for about twenty-one to twenty-three pounds. I have, howevers taken twenty-Six pound as an average, reckontd on a horse working tourteen years, and allowed compound interest at five per cent per annum. TIhose who deem twenty-eight pounds necessary for the purchase of a good horse; te continue to work well for fourteen years, will of course, increase the annuity to 21, 165. 33d.