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quantity of each can be laid up, for the 

 purpofes to which they are particularly 

 appropriated ? 



But the difadvantages of this priftine 

 practice are fuch as to render it ineligible, 

 in the prefent ftate of cultivation. If, in 

 the ordin.xy prad:ice, the embers prove too 

 weak, and an additional heat is required, 

 frefh fuel is apphed 3 and, if a fcrupulous 

 attention is not paid, the fatal ebullition 

 takes place ; and, in confequence thereof, 

 the cream is too frequently mixed with the 

 aihes. While over the fire, efpecially if 

 freih fuel be added, the furface regeives 

 the more volatile parts of the fuel, and 

 perhaps a portion of foot 5 and after the 

 pans are taken off the fire, while they iland 

 in the kitchen or pafTages to cool, before 

 they be returned tq the dairy, the cream is 

 liable to the depredations of domefcic ani- 

 mals ; ^nd to receive, in a variety of ways, 

 additional daft and dirt *, 



In 



* I am here fpeaking of the ordinary practice of far- 

 mers, — fuch as I have feei; in the Diftri6l : Gentlemen, 

 «.;id fome dairy farmers, as has been before noticed, have 

 floves fitted up for this operation, which render the prac- 

 tics much more tolerable. 



