1803.] On Animal Labour.

All thereply which your correspondent 2 gives to these inge- nious and correct observations, is Lhat“ The French 1046 of yoking will not answer on British ground," and then from this ground he rises Intofnie ae ialregionot politicalrhapsody. With his political voke LL have no RIEN 48 it 1 be usefal to E00 him of the familiar proverb cited by.the Roman poet. «: Fag'est ab hoste docert.""To the yoke connec ted with the Peaceful concerns of the farm, I Ape presumie to SPC eak, but for k15 argument drawn from 4. differenge of Britieh and French ground, I Spall be ready to"pn its propxiety when he can Shew that the Specific gravity ol'" bodies 15 materially different in France a in England, and that the mechanical Jaws connec ted with their progresSton, vary in ihese lwo coun- tries. Until then 1 ps 1te.118 application.

1.0 correspondent, alluding to my letter, 888,(page 249) <«< 1 imust bez that your correspondent will pardon me for eat bis remarks with Supercilious SENEN-=-1if he does not adduce other facts and arguments tban Such as this, that an old ox is food for man, W'hile an old horse is food for nis may make an impresSion highly ta- vourable to the 0x; 8n the-minds of the great body of con- zumers of buütcher's meat. Butin'the bre: Jets ofthe great 21 of practical farmers, they will raise Sentiments of a very dit- ferent nature."

In the zilence or garrulity of this gentleman, I can have no personal interest: if he be Silent, it may be from the recol!ec- ton of the remark in the Lyric poet.

Silvis deducti caveant me judice Fauni Hor:;derArt. Poet.li244:

dogs. Such argum:

If otherwise, Intererit multum Davuene loquatur an heros. 1d46m. 17 1145

I write to imp: rt imformation to those who wish to receive It, and I am inclined to imbibe instruc tion from those who are dizpozed to afford it. The argument wh'ch he treats with 50 little ceremony, 1 must maintain as material to my hypotbesis which i is this, thar the farmer receives for the ox when he has terminated his labour 301. when for the horse he can only ob- tain 305.

A distincetion 1s WE 000 ted to be drawn betw ee Dv consumers 1f practical far-

of butcber's meat, and practical farmers, as

mers were not admitted 5 partake of this nutritious aliment, » Same with all

and as if reas0on and common gense were Bot be ranks and classes of mankind.

harness for a ze Same number of

3x and thirty Shillings, whereas tbe leather cost 5IX and thirty PIUS and

TEE according to the new m ethod, would ie annual 00 of repairs, would exceed thric

4 the original cost c i the former." Ag. Mag. for Augult, p. 738-€