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hour, if the milk be what they call wholefome, that is, if it have no particular qualitythat demands a variation, in which cafe it is coagulated in half an hour : they vary thefcalding alfo ; for bad milk they fcald with a fierce quick fire, but good is done moregently. In managing the lump of curd, when fettled to the bottom of the boiler, theyvary alfo ; they prefs it with a circular board, fixed at the end of a flick or handle, andthen get a milk tray under it, and when they have hoifled it out, they leave it to drainin that tray about half an hour; at Lodi, ten minutes, or at mofl a quarter of an hour.The common price of the cheefe 30 livres, (2! d.) the pefo (twenty-two pounds Englifh).I tafled it at the table of the Count de Schaffianatti, and alfo at Parma, and the inferiorityto the Lodizan is great.
The attention of giving fait to cattle and fheep here, as in every other part of Italy ,is regular; they even confider a plenty of faU as fomewhat effential to having properflocks of thofe animals, and gave me an inftance which is remarkable. In the Courfidi Monchio, a valley in which the bifhop is the fovereign, there is no gabelle on fait,,and therefore given much more plentifully to cattle and fheep, the confequence is, thatthe numbers of both are much greater, proportionably to all other circumftances thanin any other diftridl.
Savoy. —They reckon at Lanefburgh, that three goats are equal to one cow;the price here is 11 livres to 12 livres. At file, in Alface , a good goat fells from12 livres to 30 livres French , in common 20 livres. Some there are fo good that twoequal a cow, but at Tour d’Aigues, in Provence , it takes four to equal a cow, the price10 livres or 12 livres French .
Sect. III.— Of Sheep.
Nice. —I here obferved what appeared very fingular, a flock of fheep brought downfrom the mountains to drink the fea-water, which is I fuppofe to fave fait. The gar-deners near the town generally keep a few fheep, confined in flies, juft as hogs in Eng-land, and fed with the offal of the garden. I took a fpecimen of the wool of one ofthefe ftie-fed fheep, more like goat’s hair than wool, it fells at 6 f. the pound.
Turin . —The price of fheep from 10 livres to 15 livres. The fleece is eight pounds,at $f. unwafhed.
Milanese. —Throughout this country I fcarcely faw any fheep, and thofe few bad.
Venetian State. — Bergamo .—Here I met a flock, an ugly breed, large, long,and ill made, without horns, the wool coarfe and hairy, large hanging ears, and theirthroats fwollen almoft like wens. They have a fabric of woollen cloth here, but thewool comes from Apulia .
Brefcia. —The fleeces here are four and a half pounds, (about two and three quarterspounds Englifh), and fell at 25 livres to 30 livres per peze, not wafhed, which is aboutis. Englifh the pound.
Verona. —Price 30/! the pound of twelve ounces (1 s. the pound Englifh)..
To Vicenza . —Meet feveral flocks; all are clipped twice a year, the breed polled, and'much like thofe, but not fo large, as on the other fide of Verona.
Vicenza . —The forts of fheep known here, are GentUi , which live only in the plain,not being hardy enough to refill the mountain cold ; their wool is longer than of theother forts. Tofetti, thefe refifl the cold well; have fhort wool, clipped twice. MontePadouana, are of a much greater fize; the flefh excellent; are clipped twice. Price ofwool, 2f livres per pound unwafhed (the ounce of Vicenza , twelve to the pound is to theEnglifh ounce as 690 is to 480, as I found, by buying an ounce weight fihere); this,price is equal to about 1 id. the Englifh pound. It is remarkable, that they here feed
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