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But with refpe(fl to the tithes arifing from grafs 

 land, and flock of all kinds, there feems to be a much 

 greater difficuhy.f 



The principal titheable produ£i:ions of this kind 

 are, hay, calves, lambs, wool, and milk, and the 

 quality of thefe is fo very different^ and the price fo 

 variable and fluduating, and fo much influenced by 

 local circuraftances, that it is next to impoflible to 

 keep 2, fair regifter of prices of every article. But 

 it is poflible that we may find fome one commodity 

 of a conjiant invariable quality^ and of daily ^ regular, 

 and indifpenfable confumption in quantity ', on the 

 price of which, the price of every other production of 

 grafs land, in a great meafure, depends. For, if the 

 demand, and of courfe the returns for that article 

 be daily and regular, its price will always govern 

 all other articles arifmg from the fame kind of land, 

 but which mud remain a longer time on hand be- 

 fore they can be carried to market. 



I contend, that this article is butter, by which I 

 mean butter made from the pure cream of milk ; 

 and I contend, that this article is the lead variable 

 in its quality, and of the mod condant, regular, daily, 



•j- And as the tithe of thefe articles conftitutes at this time ihefole 

 frwljion of fo great a part of the inferior beneficed clergy, it is par- 

 ticularly incumbent on us to take care not to. abridge xht/mall pittance 

 appropriated to the fupport pf this valuable defcription of men, 



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