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Show SOILING VS. PASTURING In nn article on the first page nf this Issue I'rof r 11 l.lnlleld gives some experience that Justllles the conclusion that soiling Is not advisable ln I'tah. 1'iof Henr, In his book on "l'teds and reeding" rather favors soiling ns an economical method of keeping tho most cons on a given area nf land. I'rof. Henry sajs Hy soiling Is meant suppljlng forage fresh from the llelds to farm stock more or less con-lined. con-lined. Tho first Ameilcnn writer tn hi lug thlsBiihJii t to the attention nf our people was Jnslah (Jiilnc), whoso essajH In 1SJ0 were liter gatheted Into a book entitled tho 'Soiling of Cattle.' now out of print Qulno points out six distinct advantages fiom willing l'lrst, the saving sav-ing of land, second, the saving of fencing, fen-cing, Ihlid, the cionoinlsing of food, font til. the lictter condition nnd grenter comfort of the catte. ilftli, the greater product of milk, sixth, the attainment of manure Aieordlng tn thin author, there aie six vinja in which farm animals ani-mals dvstio the articles destined for Ihelr food, l'lrst, bv eating, second, by walking, third bj drudging, fourth, b stalling, fifth, by I) lug down; sixth, by breathing nn It Of these six, the lltst one onlj Is useful, nil the othets are wasteful. (Jttlnty reports his own ox-pet ox-pet iciice, whet twenty tows, kept In stalls, wcie fed gteen food supplied six limes a .In). Ihe) were allowed exercise exer-cise In the open nrd. These twenty covvh stibslsled on the green ciops from seventeen a. tes of land where lift) acres had pievlousl) been reiiuliod" |