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North-Wilts, and of courfe may be bred cheaper 
than they could breed them at home; but if this 
argument be well founded, are the North-Wilthire 
dairy-men right in fatting calves? Does not the 
fatting of calves confume as much milk as the 
weaning of calves? And would not the additional 
cheefe they could make, if their cows dropt in 
March or April, inftead of January or February, 
pay as much or more than fat calves; without 
reckoning the injury done to the conftitution of the 
cows, by calving repeatedly in the winter. Un- 
doubtedly, nothing has contributed fo much to 
keep up the high price of cheefe and butter, as the 
amazing increafe, of late years, in the quantity of 
winter veal fold, not only in the London market, 
but in.almoft all the towns in the kingdom. 
North-Wiltthire mutt fend its veal to the London 
market, on the fame terms as other counties within 
the fame diftance can do; while that veal is made 
at the lofs of cheefe, which would yield 20 or 30 per 
cent. more than the average price of cheefe made 
in thofe counties. This is the reafon given, why 
North-Wiltthire dairy-men wean fo few calves, and 
why they make fo little butter for fale. The fame 
reafon feems to apply againft their fatting calves. 
But this is meant as a hint for confideration, 
rather than an object of cenfure. 
Arable management.—As tothe management of ara- 
ble land, North-Wiltthire, certainly, does not fhine. 
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