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would be ſatisfied, high as the price is, to give ſome addi- tion to the ſum they now pay, if they could purchaſe ſo uſeful an article perfectly genuine-

The cow-Kkeepers breed very few cattle, and thoſe they do breed, only from favourite cows, which become ſo, merely from their giving much milk, and with very little attention to the choice of their bulls. Even in ſummer, and when the graſs is in the greateſt plenty, the cows are regularly fed with grains, which, though the quantity of milk may be thereby increaſed, does by no means add to its quality. The general allowance is 45 quarters of grains per week, at 15. 10d. per quarter, for 25 cows. They are given them twice a day, and they have beſides two meals of turnips and hay. Some of them have tried ſalt, mixed with the grains, more with a view to preſerve the grains longer in a ſound ſtate, than from any conſideration of the health of their ſtock, or the improvement of the quality of the milk. It is acknowledged, that the cows eat the grains ſo mixed with greater avidity; but the proprietors, not getting an adequate return for their trouble and expence, I do not find that it is now much practiſed. Sometimes the grains are buried for a little time, during the brewing- ſeaſon, if they are not much in demand, and afterwards dug up again, when they are ſtill found perfectly fit for uſe. Five or fix men only are employed in attending near 300 cows; but as one woman cannot milk, above eight or nine twice a day, that part of the buſineſs would neceſſarily be attended with a very heavy expence, were it not that the retailer agrees for the milk of a certain num- ber of cows, and takes the milking upon himſelf. Some- times men undertake this branch of female employment, though in general they are very aukward at it.

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