328 C A T T L E. 36. 



Scotchmen, through recent improvements in 

 their plan of hufbandry, arc now enabled to 

 fat a part of that ftock, which formerly they 

 drove wholly tothefouthward; it feems highly 

 probable that the Norfolk graziers will, hence- 

 forward, find their advantage in encreafing, 

 and improving, their own breed ; and th^y 

 ^iiay reft alTured, that he who firft fets about its 

 improvement will have it, in his power to keep 

 the. lead ; and reap, of courfe, the higheft ad- 

 - vantage. 



II. Cows. — The prime intention or keep- 

 ing cows in this country is the rearing of young 

 flock; — the produce of the dairy, unlefs in the 

 neighbourhood of large towns, being a fe- 

 condary objedt. 



But the number of cows kept, even by the 

 rearing-farm.ers, is few : eight or ten may be 

 confidered as a middling dairy of cows upon 

 a middle-fized farm ;— I mean on the eaft fide 

 of the county. 



In Weft-Norfolk, efpccially on the marlh- 



hnd fide towards Cambridgeftiire, large dairies 



of cows are kept, for the purpofe of making 



butter ; which is fent weekly to London under 



the denomination of Cambridge butter. 



This 



