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half for her fummer^ and winter feed. The dif- 

 ference of price between this kind of cheefe, and 

 the belt fort, cannot be eftimated at leafl: than 8s. 

 per hundred weight. This declaration may pro- 

 bably furprife you, when you compare it with Mr. 

 Davis's account of the Dorfetfhire method, where, 

 he fays, they " take all the cream from the cheefe, 

 •• and yet the difference of price at market is only 

 ** 5 or 6 fhillings per hundred weight." 



Perhaps there cannot be a ftronger proof of the 

 inferiority of the plough, with refpedt to profit, 

 than the fuperior pundluality of the dairy farmer 

 in the payment of his rent. This obfervation, I 

 believe, moft ftewards, who fuperintcnd manors 

 devoted partly to corn and partly to dairy farms, 

 will verify; — at Icaft, I have never met with one 

 who controverts it. 



But perhaps the advocate for the plough will 

 defire me not to confound the abufe of a thing with 

 its intrinfic excellence — and fay, that the generality 

 of corn farmers arc mofl: egregious flovens ; — that 

 lands devoted to the plough are not confined to 

 fiich a mediocrity of profits as 20s. an acre; — that 

 the produce of artificial grafles (without which a 

 well-managed arable farm cannot exift) far exceeds 

 that of natural grafs, both in refpecl of quantitjr 



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