412 SOILING CATTLE. 



ture lields ; and the advantage of being able to apply it 

 when \ve please, where we please, and in such quantities as 

 we please, are too well known to all who have to use ma- 

 nure to produce paying crops, for any argument on the sub- 

 ject to be necessary. There is no way in which so much 

 manure of such excellent quality can be landed on the farm 

 without a far greater outlay of money than is necessary to 

 pay for all the labor required for ploughing, sowing, " tend- 

 ing," cutting, and hauling the food, and for currying and 

 feeding the animals under the most complete soiling man- 

 agement. 



Of course the manure argument does not hold (nor is 

 the system of soiling to be recommended) for those districts 

 of the West where the laughing harvest follows the tickling- 

 hoe; where straw is burned in the fields, and barns are 

 moved to get away from the accumulated manure. But for 

 the older settled countries of the East and South (and for 

 the future West the West with its " inexhaustible fertil- 

 ity " exhausted) it does hold, and with such force that as 

 population grows more dense and farmers more wise it 

 alone, even if there were no other advantage in the system, 

 must in time compel the rapid increase of the practice of 

 soiling. 



