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/arms; it can by no means be accounted for upon 

 the principles of an undue and imprudent attach- 

 ment to breaking up meadow and pafture land. 

 What are the proper and genuine caufes of thefc 

 effefts, we may endeavour to explain hereafter. 



The writer of the article above-mentioned was 

 exceedingfy mifinformed, refpedting the compara- 

 tive value of cheefe made of milk, which had 

 been completely fkimm'd, and what had not been 

 fkimm'd at all. The difference in price is, at 

 lead, four times as much as the fum he mentions. 

 Skimm'd cheefe, I have been credibly informed, 

 hath been fold at Warminfter fair, within about 

 four years laft, for 1 2s. 6d. per hundred ; whereas 

 the bed rammill, fay raw milk cheefe, fold for from 

 38s. to 42s. per hundred in the fame fair, and prime 

 cheefe from the beft dairies for 46s. or 48s. The 

 medium prices of the three different kinds, that is 

 to fay, of fkimm'd, of half new and half fkimm'd, 

 and of milk not fkimm'd at all, have been 15s. 

 28s. 40s. per hundred. 



As to the bed courfe of experiments refpe&ing 

 the comparative value of butter and cheefe, Mr. 

 Billingslev, in his very judicious remarks on the 

 faid article, has given the true, and therefore the 

 bed general anfwcr to the queftion propofed. For 



both 



