LAYING OFF A FAKM PASTURING. 4:1 



name for what should be essentially a new thing. 

 This pasture should be as near the center of the farm 

 as may be, and convenient to the barns and barn- 

 yard that are to be. It should have some shade, but 

 no very young trees; should be dry and rolling, with 

 an abundance of the purest living water. The 

 smaller this pasture-lot may be, the better I shall like 

 it, provided you fence it very stoutly, connect it with 

 the barn-yard by a lane if they are not in close prox- 

 imity, and firmly resolve that, outside of this lot, this 

 lane, this yard and the adjacent stable, your cattle 

 shall never be seen, unless on the road to market. 

 Very possibly, the day may come wherein you will 

 decide to dispense with pasturing altogether; but 

 that is, for the present, improbable. One pasture you 

 will have ; if yon li ve in the broad "West, and purpose 

 to graze extensively, it will doubtless be a large one ; 

 but permitting your stock to ramble in Spring and 

 Fall ah 1 over your own fields (and perhaps your 

 neighbors' also) in quest of their needful food, biting 

 off the tops of the finer young trees, trampling down 

 or breaking off some that are older, rubbing the 

 bark off of your growing fruit-trees, and doing dam- 

 age that years will be required to repair, I most 

 vehemently protest against. 



The one great error that misleads and corrupts 

 mankind is the presumption that something may be 

 had for nothing. The average farmer imagines that 

 whatever of flesh or of milk may accrue to him from 

 the food his cattle obtain by browsing over his fields 



