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If it is very low indeed, he will be likely to manage his dairy

in a very slovenly and dirty manner, and will scarce, perhaps,

think it worth while to have a particular room or building on

purpose for it, but will suffer the business to be carried on

amidst the smoke, filth, and nastiness of his own kitchen, as was

the case of almost all the farmers' dairies in Scotland thirty or

forty years ago, and as is the case of many of them still. The

same causes which gradually raise the price of butcher's meat,

the increase of the demand, and, in consequence of the

improvement of the country, the diminution of the quantity which

can be fed at little or no expense, raise, in the same manner,

that of the produce of the dairy, of which the price naturally

connects with that of butcher's meat, or with the expense of

feeding cattle. The increase of price pays for more labour, care,

and cleanliness.