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Manure may almoft as well be thrown into the 
water itfelf, as put upon land fo foaked and poi- 
foned with water, as to be incapable of being 
warmed by the manure. 
This improvement, which may be called the 
bafis of all other improvements, in a wet cold coun- 
try, can never be too much recommended, and is 
well worthy of imitation in many other counties; 
in which, though quite as neceffary as in this dif- 
trict, no kind of attention is paid to it. 
IMPROVEMENTS FOR CONSIDERATION. 
Breed of Cows.—Tur management of the dairy 
part of this diftriét has been a fource of fo much 
profit, as well as credit, to the county, that. it cer- 
tainly muft, in its principle, be right; and while 
there is fo much to admire, it would be invidious 
to cavil at trifles;. Whether the dairy-men are 
wrong or right in their choice of the kind of cows, 
will, probably, be hereafter determined. If they 
could buy another kind of cows, immediately fit for 
the pail, as eafily as they can the long-horned ones, 
itis probable that kind might not be fo univerfal; 
but it is clear, that they think they get nothing by 
breeding their own ftock, and perhaps they may 
think right. 
The cows they buy are bred in a country whofe 
cheefe does not ftand fo high in repute as that of 
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