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cashire long horned cows. This fine breed of 
cattle has been much overlooked by modern 
agriculturalists.. They are generally good 
milkers; and from their large size, such of 
them as do not milk freely, are very well cal- 
culated for profitable feeding. 
The roads are here repaired by breaking 
large stones which are collected from the bed 
of a river in the neighbourhood. This prac+ 
tice answers tolerably well for light weights, 
but was found of very little use on the roads 
near Manchester. We were: informed’ that 
most of the smaller farmers have looms in their 
houses, upon which their families are chiefly 
employed during the winter months. 
At Horton Tower, about four miles from 
Preston, we had a fine view of the. estuary 
of the Ribble, and an amazing extent of the 
richest low land in the county. 
Near Walton we saw a field of potatoes, 
about a Lancashire acre, in which the sets 
had all been planted whole. This method 
has been often recommended, but I had never 
before seen it followed to any thing like this 
extent. My experiments have convinced me, 
that, although a greater weight may occasi- 
onally be obtained in this way, nothing near 
the usual quantity of marketable elec: is 
ever yielded. 
