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which is equal to a clear profit of about il. 14s. 3d. upon 

 each COW". 



This however, is by no means proportioned to what the 

 profit would be, if the cows, ufed for this purpofe, were 

 of a proper and uniform breed. 



In fiipport of this afTertlon, it is particularly convenient in 

 this place, to recur to the management of a gentleman in 

 the neighbourhood of Epping, whofe attention to this, and 

 to every other branch of rural economics, is as highly 

 deferving the emulation of, as it is truly beneficial to, the 

 furrounding country. 



In addition to other regulations and improvements, Mr. 

 Conyers (as was noticed in the Journal) has lately introduced 

 a breed of cows, from Devonftiire, which feem to unite all 

 the requifites for the dairy, the draft, for fuckling, and for 

 grazing. Their milk is confefTedly richer, and in every 

 refpe6l fuperior to that of the Holdernefs, Leicefter, or 

 Derby ; though from the fize of the animal, it muft necef- 

 farily follow, that the quantity muft be lefs ; and which, 

 in comparifon with the Holdernefs cow, is allowed to be, 

 by one fourth part, though greatly fuperior in its quality. 

 One acre and an half of the prime pafture lands in the 

 county, is allowed to be equal to the full, and complete 

 maintenance of one of thefe cows for a twelvemonth; in 

 the courfe of which time, every two cows will fatten five 

 calves. The firfl; coft of thefe cows, expence of driving, 

 and every thing included, is 7I. los. per head. The 

 fuckling account then, of a herd, confifting of twenty cows, 

 will, upon the preceding principles, and the moft clearly 

 ertablilhed data, ftand thus: 



Q^ 2 A Jiuhling 



