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and locally felt ; corn being an article that will bear 

 keeping till the whim or caprice, or fuppofed ad-- 

 vantao-e, of its pofTeflbr call it forth. But the pro- 

 duce of the cow is far otherwife. Cheefe mufl 

 necelTarily be fold at a certain period ^ it is a pon- 

 derous article, and one-twelfth, or at leaft fifteenth, 

 of its value is often paid for carrying it to a fair fifty- 

 miles off; and the butter and fkimm'd milk find 

 their way no great diftance from home, as is evident 

 by the price of butter varying frequently one-third 

 in twenty or thirty miles. 



Every inhabitant of the city of Bath muft be 

 foible, that butter and cheefe have rifen one-third 

 or more in price within twenty years, Is not this, 

 owing to the great encouragement given to the 

 plough, and to grazing, at a time when, on account 

 of the increafed demand for milk,, cream, butter, 

 and cheefe, every exertion on behalf of the dairy 

 fhould have been encouraged ? 



In Dorfetfhire, the farmers take all the cream 

 from their cheefe, and yet think it equally delicious 

 to the rich kinds made in Somerfetfiiire, where it 

 is thought high treafon to take any. — The dif- 

 ference at market may perhaps be five or fix {hil- 

 lings ; and yet I well know, that the butter thus, 

 ftolen from the cheefe is frequently equal to 1 2s. on 

 every hundred weight of cheefe. 



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