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Gloucefter cheefe till within thefe few years, fhews 
that Gloucefterfhire had the name firft; though the 
quantity now made in that county is far lefs than 
what is made in this diftrié, according to the re- 
port of Mr. Marfhall, who {pent much time in both 
diftricts, for the purpofe of examining into this 
particular branch of rural ceconomy. 
Indeed, many of the beft dairy farms in the dif- 
tri& appear, as has been already ftated, to have been 
in an uninclofed ftate of arable, at no very remote 
period of antiquity; and many of the farm-houfes 
and buildings appear to be of modern erection. 
The convenient fituation of the houfes and build- 
ings of a great part of the dairy farms of this dif- 
trict, fhews that many exchanges in property muft 
have taken place before this defirable circumftance 
could have been obtained.—An object well worth 
imitation, in all countries where it can poffibly be 
adopted; and, perhaps, there is no /ingle local cir- 
cumftance, that contributes fo much to the excel- 
lence of the dairy fyftem of this diftrié, as the 
general convenient fituation of the lands round the 
houfes, as acommon centre; fo that the dairy-men 
are able to drive all their cows home to milking, 
and thereby to put all their milk together of an 
equal temperature; and by beginning their work 
much earlier in the morning, they can make cheefe 
twice aeday during the whole feafon. 
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