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the great objection usually urged to soiling animals, namely, the 

 extra labor involved, has no foundation, but on the contrary, that 

 soiling, in point of labor, is the cheaper of the two systems. And, 

 from his experience of ten years, the writer would rather perform 

 the labor of soiling fifty cows for a series of years, than to fence 

 and pasture them. 



SAVING IN MANURE. 



"This is a most important consideration. 



" 1st. It will double the amount of manure from each animal 

 kept, as the summer manure will all be saved, and in good con- 

 dition to be applied as needed. 



"2d. The saving in land will enable the feeder to keep double 

 the number of animals, and, therefore, to produce four times as 

 much manure as under the old system. By keeping an increased 

 number of animals on the same land, it is evident that the con- 

 dition of the soil will be improved, and that this will, when 

 fully adopted, prevent the dreaded exhaustion, which those of 

 wise forecast, have seen approaching in the not distant future. 



"The value of manure is not appreciated as it should be by the 

 farmers of the United States. Johnston informs us that in Flan- 

 ders the liquid and solid manure from a cow is valued at twenty 

 dollars per year. This would give us the value of the manure 

 saved by soiling each cow, ten dollars per season. There can, at 

 least, be no doubt that the manure will pay the whole expense 

 of soiling. 



SAVING LAND. 



"How the farmer may double his farm without increasing the 

 number of his acres, should be a problem of great interest. And 

 since the great business of the farmer is in rearing and keeping 

 animals, any method which will enable him to keep, in good con- 

 dition, two animals where he has kept one before, will come very 

 near solving this problem, by showing how the income of the 

 farm may be doubled, without any proportionate increase of the 

 labor. On most grazing farms of this State, not more than one 



