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Hertfordthire fort ; they are of a light colour, feed 
to about nine or ten fcore on an average for bacon, 
and are worth about fix fhillings and fix-peénce, or 
feven fhillings per fcore. As there are fo many 
dairies, an improvement in the breed of this animal 
might be made by the introduction of the forts be- 
fore defcribed. 
The dairies extend all over the county, cow- 
calves in general are reared, and bull-calves afford 
a fupply of veal. The management of the dairy, 
as every where practifed in Dorfetthire, is unknown 
to many other parts of the kingdom. The cows 
are all let out by the farmer, to a dairy-man, at a 
fixed price for each cow, according to the quality 
of the land and produce of the beaft: in fome of 
the pooreft parts of the county as low as fifty fhil- 
lings, or three pounds per head per annum; and in 
others, as high as fix pounds ten fhillings, or feven 
pounds ; and in one parifh near Beaminfter, called 
Broad-Windfor, as high as eight pounds: but I be- 
lieve the general average throughout the county will 
be about fix pounds for a cow of full growth; four 
pounds for heifers, and four pounds ten fhillings, or 
five pounds, for three years old. The ufual plan 
for letting a dairy is this: the farmer finds the 
dairy-man a certain number of cows for one year, 
commencing at Candlemas, at a fixed fum agreed 
on; he feeds, fodders, and fupports the fpecific 
number throughout the year ; he finds a houfe for 
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