Show S SOILING farm yarm STOCK there are so many advantages in soiling or feeding farm hirm stock in stables and under sheds in in summer rather than graze them at large that the practice is certain to become common an fn in the south at no distant day mr nham high english authority says A cow or ox requires from two to three acres of p pasture or meadow to feed it itt all the year round allowing a portion of hay but by raising clover lucern tares and other green crops three cows or more can be fed with the produce of one acre especially if a portion is in turnips and other succulent goofs thus the straw of the white crops is converted into excellent manure man ure are and tho the land kept in a state of fertility I 1 the above statement shows a fivefold increase of production per acre acro that Is to say in place of giving two and a half acres to graze a cow a year a part being meadow that quantity of I 1 land and by Y soiling boiling will I 1 keep five cows twelve months giving five times the quantity of milk butter and chee seand ve nive five times more manure for tile the same area of land when stock are grazing it is unavoidable that their droppings should befoul from day to lay day a good deal of grass which c h will not be eaten it is certain so much orthis of this excrement as is consumed by very numerous bugs in all our fields goes to support their live snot agricultural plants in this way a large share of our cattle manure Is lost When the bugs die we may receive a small return a if their bodies are not devoured by other bugs and their organic matter carried on Indefinitely till all is consumed to support animal vitality on southern farms the loss of animal manure is great aa a we now manage or rather neglect these things all know that our working stock mules horses and oxen our co cows ws and sheep are seriously annoyed c by many insects such as bloodsucking flies bot bees gad flies ticks ac in a quiet cool well bedded ventilated stable with a fair allowance of nutritious herbage a given quantity of food will return twice the gain in flesh and strength to all cattle using the word cattle in its old english sense is as applying as well ivell to horses and sheep as to I 1 neat cattie cattle cat tie tle than can be realized when exposed out in open fields in pa plain I 1 n words our farm stock receive too little tle tie protection and care alike in ill summer and winter indian corn which cannot be grown to any advantage in england is is one of our best soiling plants clover and all the best perennial grasses are available for the same purpose cutting these by horse home power and hauling forage on cheap railways and manure back on the same track the cost of handling both stock food and plant ant food will be comparatively small smail hence e n ce under n der the sound doctrine of rich land 1 0 of fa large arge production alike of vege i tab table tabie I 1 e and animal growth of healthy stock and the minimum of injury done by insect enemies with all labor saving machinery brought brouil to perfection de depleting practice with little or no restriction tion must come to a happy end it is not the right way to have cows and a nd other stock dropping their ments on the food which they are to eal eat it is ia not the right way to let bugs consume this food of agricultural plants it is not the right way to permit swarms of biting flies and other pests peats to torment our useful quadrupeds if we can prevent it it is not the right way to call ourselves either planters farmers or husbandmen when we neither plant farm nor husband anything as our work ou ought to be done we may be possibly great land killers great grumbl grumblers ers at a kind providence bu but A we are ard not first rate cultivators of t the he soll soil ex JE c |