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praftlce in this refpedl. • As the rearing of calves 

 is there a principal objedl with the farmer, every 

 cow is allowed to fiickle her own calf with a portion 

 of her milk, the remainder only being employed in 

 the dairy. To give the calf its proportion regu- 

 larly, it is feparated from the cow, and kept in an 

 inclofure along with all the other calves belonging 

 to the fame farm. At regular times the cows are 

 driven to the door of the calves' inclofure, where the 

 young ones fail not to meet them. Each calf is 

 then feparately let out, and runs direftly to its mo- 

 ther, where it fucks till the dairy-maid judges it has 

 had enough, when Ihe orders it to be driven away, 

 having previoufly (hackled the hinder legs of the mo- 

 ther, by a very fimple contrivance, to oblige her to 

 (land itill. Boys drive away the calf with fwitches, 

 and return it to the inclofure, while the dairy-maid 

 milks off what was left by the calf. Thus they pro- 

 ceed till the whole of the cows are milked, and thus 

 do they obtain a fmall quantity of milk, it is true, 

 but that milk of an exceeding rich quality ; which, 

 in the hands of fuch of the inhabitants as know how 

 to manage it, is manufadlured into the richeft mar- 

 rowy butter that can be any where met with. This 

 richnefs of the Highland butter is univcrfally afcribed 

 to the old grafe the cows feed upon in their remote 

 glens, but it is in fad chietiy to be attributed to the 

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