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turned abroad with the cows, as *' busses" 

 or GRASS CALVES*: the laft, a parti- 

 cular of practice, v/hich generally pays 

 amply ; efpecially when the moft promifing 

 calves are chofen for this purpofe. But the 

 mifchievous tendency of the pradlice, in a 

 general view, has been pointed out ; and, 

 conduced on the principles, on which it is 

 here carried on, it cannot be too feverely 

 reprobated. 



II. BUTTER. The only particular of 

 management, which requires to be no- 

 ticed, in the Devonfliire Butter Dairy, is 

 the fmgular method of raising the 

 CREAM J a prad:ice which is, or lately 

 was, common to Devonfhire and Cornwall. 

 This peculiarity confifts in employing culi- 

 nary heat, to affift in forcing up the cream, 



with 



* Perhaps originally bosses, or wood calves fin 

 contradiftinaion to house calves) ; namely, calves 

 fufFered to run with their dams, in the woods, or foreft 

 lands 5— the prailice and the appellation having probably 

 originated, while the country was in the foreft ftate,and 

 have both of them been continued, fmce the prefent ftate 

 ©f iiiclofure took place. 



