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ley, sell their milk in these towns, when newly taken from 

 the cow. Those who are from two, and thence even to ten 

 miles distance from town, generally churn their whole 

 milk, and sell it, and the butter, in Glasgow or Paisley ; and 

 all who live at still greater distance, make the milk into 

 cheese. The produce of these different modes will be in 

 the proportions of 3d. per Scotch pint when made into 

 cheese j 4d. when churned and sold in butter and butter- 

 milk ; and 6d. when sold as newly taken from the cow. 



A very spirited attempt in the dairy line, has been lately 

 undertaken by Mr Harley of Glasgow, who, after having 

 visited all the principal dairies in the north of England, 

 those of Mr Curwen, at Workington, in particular, resol- 

 ved to establish a plan for supplying, on a great scale, the 

 inhabitants of Glasgow, with milk of a quality they might 

 rely on. He has erected houses, on a most ingenious con- 

 struction, for feeding his cows ; and the measures he has 

 adopted, for keeping his dairy implements in good order, 

 for conveying the milk to different parts of the city, and for 

 preserving it from adulteration, will render his undertaking, 

 not only highly useful to the city of Glasgow, but will fur- 

 nish a model that ought to be followed in other places; as, 

 by such means, large towns may be supplied with an article 

 so essential for the health and comfort of the inhabitants, 

 in its greatest purity. 



The following is the substance of the information I have 

 received, regarding the expence of maintaining milch cows 

 in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, and the profit attend- 

 ing it. 



The cows were for some time grazed in the Marquis of 

 Abercorn's park at Duddingston ; they were afterwards 

 pastured, and occasionally soiled, at Fillyside near Edin,- 

 burgh. The expence of keeping them in summer and au- 

 tumn, was at the rate of Is. 3d. per day, or 8s, 9d. per week; 



