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Husbandry.The next part of the Inland Trade of this Kingdom is Husbandry, which Anteceded Buying and Selling in point of time, though the other hath the Precedence in this Discourse, and thisconsists either in Feeding or Tillage, by both which we raise great Store of Cattle, Corn, andFruits, fit for the Food, Service, and Trade of the Inhabitants.

Feeding.To begin with Feeding; and here it would be endless to enumerate the various sorts of Cattle raised and bred by the care of the Husbandman, but those of most Note as they have relation toour Trade, are

I. The Beef; which as it Transcends the whole World in the goodness of its Flesh, so it affordsmany Necessaries for our use and Trade, besides its Service in Tillage, with this we bothnourish our Inhabitants at home, Victual our Ships for Forreign Voyages, and load them withthe several Manufactures wherewith it doth supply us, from the Milk we make Butter andCheese, from the Flesh Beef, from the Skin Leather, from the Fat Tallow, and of the Hornsseveral usefull Necessaries, of all which the overplus above our home Consumption weTransport and sell in Forreign Markets.