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the family, is generally fold to labourers and poor 

 weavers, commonly at one halfpenny a quart in fum- 

 mer ; and befides, the butter-milk is generally adulte- 

 rated with water, with which the poor people mud 

 difpenfe or want. Many farmers are, however, very 

 liberal in beftowing part of the butter-milk to the 

 poor. 



Vaft numbers of calves are reared throughout the 

 county, which is the principal caufe of butter bearing 

 fuch high prices ; a fecondary caufe is, the army fta- 

 tioned through the principal towns. 



Observations. 



In countries, where milk and butter fell at high 

 rates, there is no mode, by which a farmer could make 

 more money, than by keeping a public dairy, or rather 

 fupplying cows, for that purpofe, to a dairy-man. 



In many parts of the kingdom, the farmer fupplies 

 the dairy- man with a certain number of cows, at fo 

 much per cow, from the firft of May to the firft of 

 November j and, if a cow fhould not prove to be a 

 good milker, the farmer muft fupply a good one in her 

 place. It is a fettled point between the parties, that 

 each cow muft give fo many quarts of milk in the 

 twenty-four hours, dimmifhing, of courfe, as the feafon 

 advances. 



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