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It was certainly to have been fuppofed, 

 that large farms do not keep fo many 

 cows as fmall ones ; for it would be almoil 

 impoffible were the foil ever fo favourable: 

 But the large farms in this lift, only one or 

 two excepted, are on poor foils, totally 

 improper for feeding cows, and we find 

 them accordingly applied chiefly to feeding 

 fheep and young cattle. Cows are particu- 

 larly adapted to fmall farms, and we find 

 by this table, that, in general, the fmaller 

 the farms the more the cows; this is a fa- 

 vourable circumftance to them : There is 

 One ftrong exception, however; but it is 

 requifite to reduce the table into three ave- 

 rages, as follows: 



Farms. 



To 200 acres 

 200 to 500 

 Above 500 



The difference between the firft. and fe- 

 cond articles is not fo great as I expected, 

 efpecially as the latter includes fo large farms 

 as five hundred acres : However, the ad- 

 vantage is certainly, upon the whole, on the 

 fide of fmall farms; from the fmalleft. to 

 a hundred acres, and alfo from three hun- 

 dred to four hundred are all equal. 



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