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As the cattle are very much ufed in dairies in this 
county, very little attention is paid to the fize of 
the beaft, or to fhape or colour, but if likely to make 
a good milker, it {eems all that is neceffary, and is 
worth from cight to ten guineas, to come into the 
dairy at a proper age. 
The oxen chiefly fed in the county are of the 
Devonthire breed, and go when fat to Smithfield 
market, and are faid to be the fineft grained meat 
in the kingdom. ‘Thefe are moftly fed in the vale 
of Blackmoor, which extends from north to fouth 
about nineteen miles from Gillingham and Silton, to 
Danton and May Powder; and, from eaft to weft, 
from Compton and Sutton, about fourteen miles, to 
North-Wotton and Long-Burton, and contains up-_ 
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wards of one hundred and feventy thoufand acres 
of very rich land, chiefly grazing, dairying, and 
about one-tenth part in arable, with fome planta. 
tions of orchards. 
Through this vale runs the river Stower, which 
is now undergoing a great improvement, from the 
general act of fewers, by cutting down the fides and 
+ removing 
continued labour, cheapnefs of keeping, and quicknefs of fatting.— 
And if there be little reafon for objeCtion againft the Devonfhire cow, 
on account of her giving Icfs milk in proportion than others, (which 
objection is not allowed by fome good judges) this race of females 
alfo requires more preference than feems to have been given it. » 
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