Cart-horses work from eight to ten hours every day, except Sunday. The pace varies from two miles to three and a half per hour. At long distances the draught rarely exceeds thirty hundred weight, cart included. All short distances it ranges from thirty to forty. Twenty-foui hundred weight, besides the cart, which weighs seven or eight, is the usual load hereabouts, all placed on two wheels.

The preparation for carting is very simple. The horse is put at once to work; for the first ten or fourteen days he does only half work, afterward he does a little more every day, or every other day, till he is fully conditioned.

Ploughing

"The following has been ascertained to be the quantity of land ploughed, and the ground gone over by a team working nine hours : -

"The distance travelled at the slow pace, was twelve miles, at the quicker it was sixteen miles."*