On Soiling Catile. 
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sufficient to keep them up, and those did also’ better on 
the second crop clover hay through the winter and was 
soonest sold to the butcher. But it is not only in soiling 
and in the hay, that the detrimental effects of second 
crop clover are felt; grazing on this plant has been 
found by many a very precarious business, and a neigh- 
bour had to turn out his cattle last fall on the roads to 
prevent them from starving on a profuse pasture of this 
grass, yet @n my farm cattle have done tolerably \well 
while erazing on fields, parts of which had been previ- 
ously mown and given to them in the yards, and was 
found so obnoxious that they would scarcely eat sufh- 
cient to keep them alive, from which it would appear, 
that while at liberty in the fields, they either have saga- __ 
gacity to select those parts of the clover plant which are 
least injurious to them, or to find other plants calcu- 
lated in some measure to correct its baneful effects, and 
also that they may be soiled on the first crop of red clo- 
ver, until it becomes too old for that purpose, and after — 
this turned out to graze, which would considerably in- 
crease the quantity of first crop hay, as well as the ma- 
nure, by which means their soils with the aid of gypsum 
might in a short time be sufficiently enriched to grow 
erasses suitable for a regular continuation of soiling 
throughout the whole season. 
That there may be other plants which will slobber “ 
cattle is by no means improbable, but it is thought they 
cannot be numerous on this place or their effects would 
have been discovered. 3 
Orchard grass is excellent for soiling cattle, it starts 
early, continues late, grows rapidly through the whole 
season, and incomparably faster than red clover in the 
