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mers, particularly in the neighbourhood of Dor- 
chefter, and indeed in many other places, are very 
" choice in their cows; and I had frequent opportu- - 
nities of feeing feveral dairies, which did great 
credit to the owner’s tafte and judgment. The ~ 
partiality for the Derbythire and Leicefterfhire 
forts is certainly moft prevalent, and the obferva- 
tion is juft, that thofe cows from the North-country 
breed carry infinitely more ficfh than the home 
breed, and thofe moft fanguine in this opinion are 
pofitive that they produce quite as much milk, and 
of equal goodnefs: but of this I have my doubts, 
_particularly as they confider feven or eight quarts 
at a milking, an abundant quantity, with the beft 
keep; which is certainly much lefs than the pro- 
duce in many other parts of England. 
COMMONS AND WASTE LANDS. 
Or the commons in Dorfetfhire, the greater part 
of them, in. the inclofed country, are ftinted—one 
horfe or two beafts to a lea: the horfe lea is efti- 
mated worth thirty fhillings, and half that fum for 
a beaft. The lands, in general overrun with furze 
and ant-hills, do not in their prefent ftate return 
more than feven or eight fhillings per acre; but 
moft of them highly proper to cultivate, and if con- 
verted would be worth eighteen or twenty fhillings 
an acre, as lime for manure is eafily to be obtained. 
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