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Article IX. 



On the Superior Advantage of Dairy to Arable Farms. 



[By Thomas Davis, efq; of Longleat.j 



Gentlemen, 



EXPERIENCE fufficiently evinces the extreme 

 difficulty of perfuading tenants to believe that 

 they get more (generally fpeaking) hy feeding their 

 lands, than by ploughing them; yet it requii-es very 

 few arguments to convince a landlordy that, in cold 

 wet lands efpecially, the lefs' ploughed land you 

 have, the lefs you put it in a tenant's power to ruin 

 your eftate. That a tenant of 6ol. per annum in a 

 dairy farm will get money, while a corn farm of the 

 fame fize will ftarve its occupier,* (though perhaps 

 the former gives 15 s. per acre for his land, and the 

 other but los.) is felf-evident; — not to mention, 

 that not only the increafcd price of butter and 

 cheefe, but the difficulty in many parifhes of getting 

 even a pint of milk, an article fo falutary and fo 

 neceliary to fubfiftence in our early years, call aloud 

 for every encouragement to be given to the pail. 



The plough is a friend of every body's, though 

 its advantages are very far from being particularly 



• We perfeftly agree with Mr. Davis, that this is the cafe in all 

 fmall arable farms, 



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