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The dairy becomes more worthy of the farmer's attention, and the

quality of its produce gradually improves. The price at last gets

so high, that it becomes worth while to employ some of the most

fertile and best cultivated lands in feeding cattle merely for

the purpose of the dairy; and when it has got to this height, it

cannot well go higher. If it did, more land would soon be turned

to this purpose. It seems to have got to this height through the

greater part of England, where much good land is commonly

employed in this manner. If you except the neighbourhood of a few

considerable towns, it seems not yet to have got to this height

anywhere in Scotland, where common farmers seldom employ much

good land in raising food for cattle, merely for the purpose of

the dairy. The price of the produce, though it has risen very

considerably within these few years, is probably still too low to

admit of it.