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diftrict, that has likewife, in its turn, loft ground, 
and particularly on the moft fertile lands, by the 
rage for grazing. ' 
The rich and the lazy find this a pleafant re- 
fource; and the dairy, though much more profit- 
able, is obliged to give way to it. 
Even thofe who are profeffedly dairy farmers 
can feldom refift a propenfity to apply a little of 
their beft land to the purpofe of grazing their own 
dry cows, and of fatting a few fheep in winter, or 
taking in {tock fheep to winter for the down farmers. 
It may, therefore, be fairly afferted, that notwith- 
ftanding the ftrong natural predilection of this 
country to the dairy, and the peculiar excellence of 
the dairy-woman in the making of cheefe, at leait 
one-fourth of the grafs land in this diftrict is ap- 
plied to grazing. 
The impropriety of this innovation, in many 
parts of this diftrict, will be afterwards noticed. 
The dairy farms in North-Wiltfhire have, in 
fome cafes,a {mall quantity of arable land annexed 
to them, in others not. 
The propriety of this appendage will alfo be 
afterwards enquired into. 
LIVE STOCK, 
As the dairy cows of this diftrit form fo great 
@ part of its depending ftock, it is an effential ob- 
ject 
