348, On Soiling Cattle. 
with board washing and lodging; but it was under an 
expectation of a present at the end of the year, if his 
conduct merited it; but confinement every sunday not 
being agreeable to him, the rest of the labourers on the 
farm took each his sunday in rotation at this business, 
for which they were paid exclusively of their monthly 
wages, and at the same rate, but no compensation is 
expected for sunday attendance on the cattle during 
winter, such attendance being customary. 
Numbers appear to dread the trouble and difficulty 
attending soiling, who cheerfully acquiesce in winter 
stall feeding ; and the cleaning of troughs, varying food, 
and humouring the appetite of animals, both in respect 
to quantity and quality, is submitted too without mur- 
muring, because they have been accustomed to it, not- 
withstanding it frequently happens, that accidental or, 
injudicious feeding but once, satiates cattle so much, 
that it is found very difficult to get them to feed well 
afterwards: not so with soiling, if too much be given, 
the cattle will eat until they are fully satisfied, and if 
after this is done, they become displeased with the re- 
mainder in consequence of its having laid too long in 
their cribs, if the contents are removed and fresh grass 
given, they eat as freely as if nothing of this sort had 
occurred; neither have I observed variety necessary to 
stimulate their appetites, but it is observable that al- 
though in the field they are fondest of the tenderest 
shoots, in the crib it is otherwise ; there, tender grasses 
form a compact mass, with which they are not so well 
pleased, as when further advanced in their growth, and 
this circumstance appears to form a solid reason, why 
it has been found in Europe, that the same cattle gained 
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