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IN the rapid increase of grass land during the last thirty years, farming in the Home Counties has seen a remarkable change. The exhaustion of land by the too frequent growth of cereals during the period of high prices, and the fall in the price of corn since, made corn, as the main product of farming, unprofitable to cultivate in part of this district. The land has been laid, or in too many cases has been allowed to lay itself, down to grass, and, instead of corn, milk has now become the principal agricultural product. This change is most noticeable within a circle having London for its centre and a radius of thirty or forty miles, for milk is both bulky and perishable, and railway charges and time in transit both desiderate its production near the great centre of consumption.
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D., T. Soft Cheese-Making in the Home Counties . Nature 70, 137 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/070137a0
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