; mes a 
je&t of enquiry, which is the moft proper kind of 
cows, for the particular purpofe for which they are 
principally kept in this diftrict; viz. the making 
of cheefe. 
Cow frock.—It does not appear, at this time, what 
was the original kind of cow kept in this diftri€; 
probably, the old Gloucefterfhire cow—a fort now 
almoft extinct, or, perhaps, as is now the cafe in 
Somerfetfhire, a mixture of all kinds. But the 
univerfal rage, for upwards of twenty years paft, 
has been for the long-horned, or, as they are called, 
the “ North-country” cows; and at this time, per- 
haps, nine-tenths of the dairies in this diftrict are 
entirely of that kind. The reafons given for the 
general introduction of this fort are, the nearnefs of 
their fituation to the North-country breeders, where 
they can get any quantity they want at any time, 
cheaper than they can rear them in a country where 
land is in general too good, and rented too dear for 
that purpofe; and, efpecially, as in confequence of 
the great demand for the Bath and London mar- 
kets, calves will pay better to be fold for veal, than 
to be kept for ftock; but, perhaps, the real reafon 
is, that “ pride of ftock,” which, operating like 
the pride of fheep and horfes in Scuth-Wiltthire, 
has gradually led the farmers to an emulation in 
beauty and fize, more than in ufefulue/s and profit; 
and which pride, the breeders have not been want- 
ing in ufing every artifice to create and promote, ~ 
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