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price, and more than double the quantity might be sold, with Means and : 
the greatest benefit and comfort to the bulk of the community. f^i^^attJe 
This object is attainable, leaving a handsome and liberal profit with steamed 
to the cow-keeper, and I verily believe would be effected by the footl * 
system I propose. 
The plan I have now the honour of submitting to the 
society has been adopted by Mr. Harley, of Glasgow ; by 
Major Ferrand, and the Reverend J. Penny, in the West 
Riding of Yorkshire, and many others ; and in every instance 
it has been found most completely to answer. 
From Mr. C.'s second Letter . 
Though great and important improvements have been made 
in Agriculture in the last few years, it is far distant from per- 
fection even in the most improved districts. The comfort and 
happiness of the many has always held out to me the strongest 
incentive for exertion, and no part of my farming operations 
have yielded me equal gratification as my dairy. The result of 
what was done at the Schoose last year has confirmed my 
opinion, that a plentiful supply of good and unadulterated milk 
is of the highest importance to the comfort and health of the 
lower orders ; 145,000 quarts of new milk were sold in the 
last twelve months— Milk is now become a necessary of life-— 
[Five years ago the amount of the total sale to the town of 
Workington, containing between eight and nine thousand 
souls, might be 1,500/. per annum, or at two pence per quart, 
wine measure, 108,000 quarts — From the best information I 
can obtain, I conceive I am warranted in stating the present 
sale of milk to be above 5,000/. per annum, or 600,000 quarts. 
Thus the proportion to each individual in the year 1806, would 
be20quarts, in the year 1811, 60 quarts. The truth is, that it 
was but in partial use. I believfe I may assume, that what was 
the situation of Workington a few years ago, is that of the 
greater part of the kingdon at present. That species of human 
■food which is produced in the greatest abundance with the least 
consumption of the fruits of the earth, is a luxury, and not as 
it ought to be, one of the staple articles of consumption. The 
time and attention I have bestowed on this subject, have given 
it an importance in my view, that may surprise those who have 
pnly considered it superficially. I am disposed to believe much 
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