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in the same manner as in Middlesex ; the produce is 
great, as not unfrequently three loads of 
1800 ewt. each load, is got, at two cuttings, from an 
acre. the marshes possess very rich and valuable 
ing seprbee so — the or of ea Thames 
are greatly to on the ocean or Blackwa- 
ter; the rent varies from £3 to £10 per acre ; the lat- 
ter incipally taken by the London butchers. The 
marshes in Dengey Hundred are singular, from the cir- 
cumstance that they rise in elevation as they approach 
the sea. The rise in the price of corn has indu- 
ced several of the proprietors latterly to let their marsh 
land to be plou Between the Blackwater and the 
used are principally the Holderness, Leicester, and 
Derby, though other breeds are often mixed. In ma- 
king Epping butter, the milk is suffered to stand 24 
hours, when the cream is skimmed off, and the milk is 
drawn into other vessels, where it remains for about 20 
hours, when the cream is again taken off: this‘is cal- 
led doubling, It is afterwards put into deeper vessels, 
when all the remaining cream is separated from it: 
this is called trebling. The butter made from the two 
last skimmings is of inferior quality. There is one 
thing peculiar to the dairy-women, which is, that there 
must be a certain proportion of sour in the cream ; 
otherwise they cannot ensure good butter. The butter 
made by the smaller farmer is either carried to Epping 
market, or sold to higglers ; but the large farmers ge- 
nerally agree with some Clare-market butter-man for 
the whole produce of the ee 
Essex has long been noted for its calves. Formerly 
it was supposed that more were bred and fattened here 
than in any sere oar, ae county ; but the practice is 
on the decline. ides the calves that are bred in Es- 
Sex, numbers are brought from other parts of the 
kin , and fattened here, especially by the farmers 
in the Burnham and Gey ack Maomemehin he To pro- 
mote their fattening, are iven a small 
ball com of the powder of fhcaigrecks phest. meal, 
and a small quantity of chalk, mixed up with 
mild ale. Essex is not for its live stock, though 
in some the Devon breed of cattle are gaining a 
footing. Where early lambs are in demand, the Dor- 
set sheep are kept: besides these, there are in the 
county a mixture of Norfolk, Welsh, and Wiltshire. 
Considerable attention has been paid to the breed of 
hogs: there is one kind very valuable, called the Es- 
sex half black ; the Berkshire is the favourite breed in 
the southern parts of the —— The Suffolk breed 
of horses are generally employed for agricultural pur- 
poses.’ Oxen are seldom wrought. 
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Calves. 
Skeep. 
Hogs. 
There are several decoys among the islands and pocoy., 
marshes; the most considerable is in Mersey island: 
when ‘any n approaches the decoy, he takes a 
piece of lig turf in his hand; as the wild ducks, it’ 
