SOILING INCREASES CAPACITY OF FARM 33 



A farmer having a one -hundred -acre farm 

 could provide, under the soihng system, summer 

 and winter roughage for fifty to seventy -five head 

 of cattle. Under the pasturing system he would 

 not have a sufficient area to provide more than 

 summer pasture, as each animal would require 

 about two acres; thus he would not be able to 

 provide any forage for winter use. In other words, 

 the soiling system virtually increases the efficiency 

 of areas available for dairying from four to six 

 times. 



Under good systems of pasturage, it would 

 require at least 100 acres to supply the pasture 

 necessary for fifty cow^s, whereas by the soiling 

 system 100 acres would be capable of providing 

 food for 300 cows for the same period. All of the 

 large dairies producing sanitary milk for the best 

 city trade, and keeping from 50 to 500 cows, prac- 

 tice soiling and find it much more economical than 

 pasturing; in fact, it would be practically impos- 

 sible, in many instances, to conduct the business 

 if pasture were the only source of summer succu- 

 lent food. 



EXPERIMENTS TO DETERIMINE THE COST OF NUTRIENTS 



In experiments at the New Jersey Station on 

 the yield and cost of nutrients in soiling systems, 

 it was shown that, while both yield and cost varied 



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