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plaints, which greatly injure, and fometimes prove 
fatal tothem. Dairy cows in the open fields, down 
in the vale, are known to fink very much in bad 
winters, though foddered with good hay. On the 
contrary, where good yards are conftruéted, with 
plenty of fhed-room, and attention is paid to litter- 
ing them down occafionally, and keeping the cattle 
dry and comfortable, they fometimes even improve 
on the ftraw, and are fure to come out healthy. and 
thriving in fpring. 
The land is chiefly in an inclofed ftate; but in 
fome inftances, additional partitions are wanting ; 
the fields being too large for the proportion of the 
farm for any particular crop, which is attended 
with great inconveniencies; fome open fields re- 
main, but are faft difappearing. Inclofures have 
been uniformly attended with great advance of rent, 
and increafed produce. 
The Woollen Manufaory is carried on to great 
extent in this diftrict; the fine trade is at prefent at 
a ftand, but the coarfe for army clothing and the 
Eaft-India company remarkably brifk. The in- 
troduction of machinery, for every procefs the wool 
goes through to the loom, has thrown many hands 
out of employ; and feveral gentlemen, I have con- 
fulted, attribute the enormous rife ‘of poors rates 
entirely to that caufe; thefe, I have been credibly 
informed, amount in fome inftances, in the imme- 
diate vicinity of the manufactories, to fix fhillings 
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