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is of a paler colour, and of an inferior quality to that made 

 from the cream, which rifes the firft twenty-four hours : it 

 is generally churned apart, and fold at a lower price. 



The flcimmed milk is ufually applied to the purpofes of 

 feeding porkers, or fmaii pigs, for the London market ; 

 thefe are always kept very clean, and warmly lodged, par- 

 ticularly in winter, during which feafon, as well as in the 

 fummer months, the milk is always four before it reaches 

 the troughs, but on that account there does not appear to 

 lie the lead poflible objedlion ; as the pigs are always found 

 to thrive extremely well, and their fat, from repeated trials 

 of comparifon, is firmer, and vaftly fuperior to that of hogs 

 fattened upon peas or meal. 



To account for this, however paradoxical it may at firfl 

 appear, and certainly againft the more generally ixceived 

 opinion, is by no means difficult; nor will it feem at all ex- 

 traordinary or flrange, when it is confidered, that the milk 

 •with which the pigs are fed, contains all the rich gluten, 

 or that component part which would conftitute cheefe ; 

 and no one (it is prefumed) will deny, the nutritive qualities 

 of that important article, in the lift of thofe neceffaries, 

 which compofe one of the principal in the fupport of 

 human life. 



About two acres of the prime paftures are ufually allowed 

 for the confumption of a milch cow, which at 23s. per acre 

 (agreeably to the general average table) is 46s. to this, 

 tythes may be added 3s. 6d. per acre ; and poor's and other 

 parifh rates 4s. in the pound. A lofs of 50s. is generally 

 fuftained upon the fale of the old cows, and an allowance 

 of ten per cent, upon the years produce, ought in reafon to 

 be made for rilk, accidents of flipping calf, cow dodlor, 

 &c. &c. The account will then Hand upon a dairy of 

 twenty cows as follows : ., 1^^^ 



