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On Soiling Cattle. By John Lorain. 
Read January, 1811. | 
Tackoney, 20th December, 1810. 
Sir, | | . 
| % I purpose at this time to enter no further into the 
subject, of soiling, than what relates to the grasses for 
and against it, and the management of the cattle, unless 
as I proceed it may be considered better to make ob- 
servations now, on some other things connected with 
that system. 
The varieties of grasses on this place are very incon- 
siderable; green grass, timothy, and orchard grass, have 
ma been my principal dependence for soiling the cattle, but 
_ there is also some blue grass, white clover, and other 
native grasses, and to none of those have they disco- 
vered any marks of dislike, and they have been tried 
with some very coarse from a wet spot in a bottom 
meadow, to which they did not object; they will also 
eat crop or fall grass freely, likewise a multitude of 
weeds which they reject in the fields, and having been 
compelled from necessity to cut a barley stubble crop 
of tall oat grass for them, they also eat this freely, and 
as it has since grown sufficient for a short cut with the 
scythe, promises great usefulness in soiling. 
If the cattle are fed with red clover in the spring be- 
fore the heads are beginning to form, they will in gene- 
ral eat but little of it for the first day or two, but after 
this feed more freely on it, and when the heads are 
pretty generally formed or forming, they continue to eat 
