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On Soiling Cattle. 343 
stances, be rather short for the scythe, but if it were long _ 
enough I should certainly expect to proceed, as soon as 
the snow and ice are out of the way ; for a considerable 
snow which fell on the Ist and 2d of November, and ‘ 
laid for sometime on the grass which has been cut since, 
produced but trivial inconvenience. A little patch of 
tolerable grass of the same sort has been reserved, to _ 
ascertain whether the old foliage, together with the 
young sprouts, which it is expected will spring up soon- 3 
er under this warm cover, will not form an early and 
profitable cutting for cattle in the spring ; for if a late 
and early cut can be provided for the yards, no part of 
grazing can be managed as economical as soiling, and. 
the rapidity with which the soil may be improved by the 
latter practice, must recommend it to attention when it 
has been sufficiently considered to what extent manur 
ing may be carried ona farm, the grass grounds o: 
which are all subject to the scythe, and the hay, grass, 
straw, leaves, weeds, corn stalks and their roors are all 
attentively gathered and brought mto proper use in the 
yards, and that this may be effected in some situations 
without resorting to soiling is evident, but it is equally 
evident, that those situations are too inconsiderable to 
produce effects materially interesting to agriculture. 
To illustrate the extent to which manuring may be car- 
ried, facts will be produced as far as they will go, and © 
the deficiency supplied with speculation, which it is 
thought will not fall far short of demonstration: This 
farm has been subject to this’ system only four years, 
and at this time may be justly considered in the infan- 
cy of improvement, and. this year 13 acres have been 
highly manured for the summer fallow crops, and be- 
