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such as butter and soft cheese, will prove of especial service in 

 districts that are too remote from populous centres to enable 

 the milk trade to be carried on with profit. 



Beef and mutton can be more cheaply fatted, and milk 

 more cheaply produced, on a farm of which a portion is in 

 grass than on arable land alone. It may not be possible to 

 fatten so many beasts or sheep per acre as when stall-fed on 

 arable produce ; but the point now under consideration is 

 farming at a profit, and I believe that one of the most potent 

 factors in the increase of pastures, and especially of temporaiy 

 pastures, will be this facility of producing meat and milk with 

 advantage to the grazier as well as to the consumer. 



