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which is equal to about 3I. 3s. grd. net profit annually per 

 cov/; and although there is evidently a want of coincidence 

 between this and the preceding account, in the price of the 

 lean, and alfo of the fat calves, flill thatftatement is exprefsly 

 correct, being,- derived (with much other of the moit ma- 

 terial information) from the books of Mr. Conyers, Mr. 

 Smith, of Sutton, the Reverend Mr. Abdy, and other 

 Gentlemen, to whom much is due from the public, for 

 their candid communications, and individually from myfelf, 

 for their politenefs and hofpitality. 



In this laft ftatement, it may be objedled, that no difcount 

 is allowed againft the cows for their decreafing value. This 

 is anfwcred by long experience in their native country (and 

 a very important fadl it is) that when from age or accident, 

 this breed is no longer proper for the purpofes of milk, their 

 hardinefs and peculiar conformation enable them to retain 

 for the purpofes of grazing, all the condition and value 

 of their firft coft, as hazardable heifers. 



A decided fuperiority therefore attaches upon this breed 

 of cows, not only for the dairy and fuckling but in 

 their difpofition, to keep in good order during the term of 

 their milk, and in their great aptitude to feed, or to fatten 

 afterwards: thus uniting at once, all thofe qualities, which 

 are fuppofed to exift individually in other breeds, and thus 

 in one fpecics, concentrating all thofe excellencies fo long 

 and fo earneftly fought for, in the mod perfect of thefo 

 animals: fuch, for a fhort inftance, as the Wales cows 

 doing much better with a lefs quantity and inferior quality 

 of food, than the Derby or Leicefler; their thin blue 

 milk being more applicable to the purpofes of fuckling, 

 than the richer milk of the Derby and Leicefter ; the ad- 

 vantages of the latter for grazing over the Wales breed in 



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