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made during the year eighteen thousand pounds of urine, which was 

 absorbed by the refuse. 



\ Advantages of Soiling. 



1st. You require no fences. • 



2d. Your cows yield twice as much milk. 



3d. They are fit for the shambles in the fall, being fat. 



4th. Are always ready to be milked. 



5th. Are never worried by being driven to and from pasture. 



6th. They eat the refuse grass which would otherwise be lost. 



7th. Eight acres will keep them better and longer than forty would 

 depastured. 



8th. Your fields are always in fine order, not being packed by their 

 feet. 



9th. Your man is not much longer feeding them, than he would be 

 driving them home. 



10th. You save manure enough to pay the interest on a farm cost- 

 ing over $5,000, in one year. 



During winter, I cut all the straw and hay my cattle and horses 

 eat— mix it with wheat bran in small quantities, and feed them three 

 times each day. I find they eat in fifteen minutes as much food in 

 bulk, as would oblige them to stand on their legs nearly all night, if 

 fed in the usual manner — the consequence is, they are thus enabled 

 to rest, take on fat, and secrete milk. 



P. S. — I always fed the animals three ox cart loads of grass or 

 stalks daily. 



