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On Soiling Cattle, By Israel IF, Mortis. 



Green Hill Farm, Delaivare Co, (Penn,) 



^th mo. fAugJ \!5th, 1825. 



Read September 20tb, 1825. 



Lest I should be thought incommunicative, or dis- 

 posed to withhold any little experience I may have at- 

 tained in ai^ricultural pursuits, I sit down in compli- 

 ance with thy request, to note for thy perusal, such parts 

 of the system I have adopted, as I believe from our con- 

 versation, will most interest thee. 



My household farm contains about forty-five acres of 

 arable and grazing land ; and what is generally under- 

 stood by a rotation of crops, is the system pursued in its 

 cultivation. 



My stock has been, the present season, sixteen cows, 

 a bull, one yoke of oxen, three horses, (two of which 

 are more used for family purposes than those of the 

 farm) a yearling colt, five breeding sows, a boar and five 

 barrow s ; for all which 1 pursue the system of soiling, 

 until my hay harvest is nearly completed, by which time 

 I find it necessary to turn out to pasture, as I have never 

 attempted any succession of food by cropping for them, 

 with a view to continue the system throughout the sea- 

 son. I endeavour to have my stock carefully and regu- 

 larly fed while soiling, five times in the day ; say they are 

 stabled for this purpose, at five, eight, eleven, three, and 

 six o'clock each day, and they are perhaps in the stable 

 nearly or about an hour each time ; the remainder of the 

 day they are kept in the barn yard, in which is a shed 



