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and leafl: varying confumption in quantity, of any 

 other titheable produce of grafs land; and that its 

 price has kept a more regular progreffive propor- 

 tion with the price of the land from which it arifes, 

 for thefe two jaft centuries, than any other article 

 whatever ; and of courfe is hkely to make a proper 

 flandard, by which the value of tithes arifing from 

 grafs land may be regulated for time to come. Be- 

 fides, the fale of butter being chiefly confined to 

 great towns, an account of its prices is more eafily 

 kept, than of almoft any other article. 



Cheefe will not do for a flandard — becaufe, its qua- 

 lity Is fo variable, that no regiiler can be kept of it. 

 Dorfetfliire and Glouceflerihire cheefe differs half 

 in their quality^ and of courfe in their prices j and 

 there is no way of keeping an account of its age 

 when fold, although that affefls the price almofl as 

 much as the quality. 



No flandard can be taken from wool, becaufe the 

 quality is var^nng every dayj both from the intro- 

 duftion of new kinds of flieep, and the different 

 modes of keeping thofe already in ufe. 



Calves and lambs vary in price according to the 

 goodnefs of the kind, or the whim of the breeder; 

 but no man will attempt to breed any improved forts 

 if he is to pay tithes in kind. No flandard therefore 

 can be kept of them. 



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