Profit of Soiling Cattle. S21 
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Amount brought forward, $ 3580 61 
the farmer in the practice of leaving his stalks 
in the field, and entangling his plough and 
horses among them in the spring, risking his 
shins at every step, would laugh at seeing 
them estimated in a crop. I find them cheap 
and excellent litter for the yards, they are with 
the straw not consumed by the cattle, charged 
together with raking woods, and hauling 
leaves every year to my manure account.— 
Price of stalks at three dollars per ton, 4 57 00 
Barley straw and chaff, valued at the cost 
of threshing and cleaning the grain, - 27 81 
Wheat straw and chaff, valued in the same 
way, - - - . - 2 - 3712 
Dollars, $ 3702 54 
This produce has not been accumulated by a system 
free from errors and misfortunes: a large share of both 
has occurred very injurious to the crops, which will be 
explained, when I communicate the result of my corn 
and potatoe patch. 
The tract 106 acres 85 in grass and under tillage ; the 
residue woods, roads, yards and garden: had those 85 
acres been in grass no better or thicker set, they would 
have been barely sufficient to pasture the stock, and tak- 
ing into consideration the forepart of the season, I doubt 
whether under the very best management they would 
have been enough. One acre of good land well set with 
srass, is considered sufficient for an ox; but grounds sub- 
ject to the plough, are rarely returned well set with artifi- 
cial grasses, and are seldom rich enough to get quickly 
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