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the highlands of Scotland, he fays, wee have adopted, with- 
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airy. To give the ca'f its proportion regularly, it is fepa- 
rated from the cow, and kept in an inclofure along with all 
the other calves belonging to the fame farm. regular 
ut, and runs direftly to its mother, 
alg it Se ye = dairy-maid judges it has had enough, 
orders it to be driven away, having previoutly 
Taekiea che hinder legs of the mother,by a very fimple 
contrivance, to oblige her to ftand ftill. oys drive away 
the calf with {witches, and return it to the inclofure, while 
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thus do they obtain a {mall quantity of milk, it is true, but 
that milk of an exceeding rich quality; which, in the hands 
of fuch of the inhabitants as know how to manage it, is ma- 
r that can 
ufes might be found for the 
fome ocealions, it might be eu si into butter of an faferior 
quality; on others, it might be fold {weet, where the fitua- 
tion of the farm is within reach “of : a market town; on other 
occations, it might be converted into cheefes, which, by be- 
ing made of {weet milk, would be of a very fine qhality, 
if carefully made; and fill cther ufes might be devifed for 
its application. One mode of managing milk, by means of 
which the inferior kinds of it might, on many occafions, 
efpecially within reach of towns, be difpofed of to great 
wever mentioned, which is this: 
Heat fome 
that is large enough to con- 
was put. Set the 
into the hot water, and let it res 
ce of one nig 
ends out, or any other fimilar convenient veffel. 
water, aud pour it into a tub t 
tain with eafe the veflel in which the mil 
veflel containins the mil 
main there for the {pac 
athin ferous water t remains in 
the bottom ; draw off the thin part (called wigs) by opening 
ft k placed for the oe clofe above t ottom, 
for 1 
muc iy lefs than the half 
of the milk is thus converted es a 2 for of cream, which, 
when well made, feems to be as rich ao fat as r al crea 
atfelf, and is only diftinguifhable from that b 
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ny other circumftances, greatly affecting the operation. 
Thefe things praCtice beft difc 
And 4thly, that if the aisle ee the butter be the chief 
obje& attended to, it will be neceflary not only to feparate 
e firft from the lait drawn milk, but alfo to take nothing 
the quantity of prim 
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but the cream that ts fit ec from the bet milk, as it . 
g cream a hat is of the prime quality. 
The remainder of th ome es will be ftill fweet, may 
be either employed for the lars of making {weet milk- 
cheefes, or it may be allowed to ftand, to throw up cream 
for making butter of an inferior quality, as circumftances 
ma 
ee tly. That, from the above fects, we are enabled to per- 
ceive that butter, of the very be& poffible quality, can only 
obtained from a dairy of confiderable extent, when judt- 
nonly a very {mall portion of 
when only a very {mall proportion of that cream can be 
referved as of the prime quality, it follows, that, unlefs the 
quantity of milk vin upon the whole, very confiderable, 
cream produced would be fo fmall, 
as to be fcarcely ak the while of manufadturing fepae 
is commonly entert 
daha se the very 
n thofe pee where the manufacture of cheefe 
is the principal object. The reafons are obvious: if only 
mall portion of aye fhould be fet apart for iad all 
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milking is to be referved for butter, the rich milk, which is 
= after that cream is feparated, being ftill perfeQiy {weet, 
be converted into cheefe with as great ee nearly 
as ee new-milked milk itfelf. But as it is not probable that 
many perfons could be found who would be willing to pur- 
chafe the very fineft butter made in the manner above 
milk be wy sonia at eac 
ucing cream; and if that milk be allowed 
and to nae up the whole of its cream, even till it 
beans fenfibly to taite pee ; and if that cream be after- 
wards carefully managed, the butter thus obtained will be _ 
of a quality ‘greatly, fuperi ior to what can ufually be ob- 
et, and its quantity not confiderably ye ene 
milk a been treated alike. 
m to feparate about the half ‘of 
Whilft he was employed in 
On, in a: ets to 
uncomm thefe c rcuitian tafted fenfibly falt. 
trying che "different cede of that milk, however, it was per 
firft-drawn milk was extremely falt to the 
t y {weet. os) an after= 
trial, made with a view to afcertain what proportion of the 
milk was falt, it was found that the faltneis decreate ie 
ually from the ee and was entirely gon 
near ihe half of the milk was drawn _ fo that ioe the att. 
drawn half of the milk was quite {we nded to 
have tried if other naufeous taftes that ne fet milke, 
fuch as that from turnips, rae tea i was particularly con- 
fined to the firft-drawn milk or not; but other peers 
prevented him from seers this "fact. ace end 
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