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which wefe then killed in autumn was {"matt, 

 compared with the much greater numbers 

 that are at prefent butchered in the Dif- 

 trict; every market of which is now plenti- 

 fully fupplied with beef the year round ; and 

 this, notwithstanding considerable quantities 

 are ftill hung in autumn. The market of 

 Makon might well vie with the London mar- 

 kets. If only twice the quantity of beef be 

 confumed in the Diflrid: now, of what was 

 confumed fifty years ago, the evidence is 

 good. 



Twenty or thirty years ago, great quanti- 

 ties of young cattle, bred in the common 

 paftures, and in the rough grounds of the 

 marihes, and other central parts of the Vale, 

 were annually fent out of it. The number 

 of lean oxen, too,, which were fent out of the 



country 



fore the ufe of r.il-cake, &c. \vas Known ; more efpe- 

 cially in open countries, at a diftance from marfhes, fens, 

 a*id r ch baylaxd Diftricls ; the practice here noticed 

 v/as a th'.ng of necrjjity. The only opportunity the 

 huibnnchnan Irad of railing his cattle atove the half- 

 (larved common-pafture condition, was in the wane of 

 iummer, with the aftergrafs of the common meadow., 

 a.-.d the ftubbies of the common fields : thefe done, his 

 ifj roes of fatting were exhauftcd, without a poffibility 

 .'i rt:vj'>v:il,- until the wane of the caiulne; iummciv 



