This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...resulting from drains may be felt in a very few years; but a long time must elapse before trees newly planted can grow up to give shelter, and till that time shall arrive arrive, the question, respecting the influence of climate on particular kinds of deep, cannot receive a satisfactory solution. All the farms, where ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...resulting from drains may be felt in a very few years; but a long time must elapse before trees newly planted can grow up to give shelter, and till that time shall arrive arrive, the question, respecting the influence of climate on particular kinds of deep, cannot receive a satisfactory solution. All the farms, where the most valuable Chiviot sheep are bred, have been very completely drained, and have a bottom of red granite. Very few farms, on any other bottom, have hitherto been as well drained. A considerable quantity of butter and cheese is made of ewe-milk. Little attention is, in general, paid to the manufacture of butter, as it is seldom eat, and chiefly intended to be mixed with tar for salve. All the farmers and their shepherds have cows, the cream of whose milk plentifully supplies their families with butter. During the short season of milking ewes, a small quantity of butter may sometimes be made from a part of their milk, mixed with that of cows, and kept for different purposes of cookery, But, were it not for the disticulty and expence of procuring a sussicient quantity of this article for salving their numerous flocks, farmers would employ every drop of their ewe-milk in making cheese, which is a considerable article of sale, and much esteemed, by some for its peculiar relish, and by others as an excellent stomachic. From 5 s. 6 d. or 6 s. it has lately arisen to 7 s. and several parcels to 8s. and even to 8 s. 6 d. per stone, owing, chiefly, to the practice of milking ewes being disused in many places from a persuasion that it is hurtful, though partly, also, to the increasing demand for this commodity. Concerning the expediency of milking ewes, opinions have fluctuated, and seem not yet to be quite established. In exposed situations, where e...
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