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Two oftenfible reafons are given by the dairy. 
farmers, for continuing this kind of ftock, viz. 
that they can make more cheefe from each cow; 
and that thefe cows will yield more, when thrown 
off to be fatted, than any other fort. 
The quantity of cheefe produced from each cow 
in this diftrict, is certainly, as Mr. Marfhall juftly 
obferves, amazingly greater than is common in any 
other cheefe-making diftri€t; fometimes as high 
as 44 Cwt. or near 5 cwt. per cow; feldom lower 
than 3 cwt.; perhaps 34 cwt. is a good average in 
a good cheefe-making year, on every cow that 
calves in proper time. But the fecond reafon, viz. 
that this kind of cows produce more than any other 
kind, when fold for fatting, is an anfwer to the firft, 
for this fimple caufe, becaufe they are bigger. 
If, therefore, it can be proved, as the oppofers 
of this breed fay it eafily can, that four cows of a 
{mall fize will, with the fame food, produce as much, 
or more cheefe, than three of the large long-horn- 
ed kind, it will be eafy to prove, that the {maller 
kind will be the moft eligible ftock; firft, becaufe, 
in cafe of the death of an animal, the lofs is not fo 
ferious, and, principally, becaufe the weight of a 
large animal is an effential injury to land of which 
the great fault is, its being already too cold and wet. 
Befides, it is allowed, even by the advocates for this 
kind of cow, that they do not come to perfection, 
until they are, at leaft, two years older than cows 
of 
