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the inhabitants, to be ſupplied with that article, it would be extremely deſirable to aſcertain. But there are not ſuf- ficient data to do it with any great preciſion. The follow- ing calculation, however, may be improved and perfe cted by more minute and careful enquiries, which the Board may afterwards cauſe to be inſtituted.

„Though the yielding a great quantity of milk, is natu- rally the principal quality wiſhed for by the London cow- keepers in the cows they purchaſe, yet ſo indifferently have they as yet fucceeded in attaining that object, that though it is well known that cows in Scotland, of the true Dutch breed, yield at the rate of 16 Scotch pints, or 8 Engliſh gallons per day, and ſometimes more, yet in the neigh- bourhood of London they ſeldom give more than 6 gallons even in the heighth of the ſeaſon; indeed 5 gallons in fummer, and 4 in winter, is a high enough average.

The account of each cow will then ſtand as follows: No. of gall. Value of milk.

Five gallons per day for 182„ days, at 6d. per gallon, 910 L 2²² 15 0 Four gallons per day for 183 days, at 6d. per gallon, 73² H*8 6 0 Total each cow, 1642 4a 0

On the ſuppoſition that there are 6,000 cows neceſſary for the ſupply of London and its ſuburbs, there are conſe- quently 9,852, 000 gallons of milk ſold there in a year, or at an average, about 27,046 gallons daily; for which the cow-keepers get(.246, 300.; and as the retailers get 15. per gallon, it coſts the inhabitants of London L.492, 600. ber arnum, or about 1350 per day, to be ſupplied with milk and cream. The butter conſumed there, comes at a greater diſtance, particularly from Epping, Cambridge,&c.

Syſtem of huſbanary.— The ſyſtem of huſbandry practiſed in Middleſex, is in general nearly the ſame. At the ex- tremities,

For remarks and additiona! obſervations.