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" delivering it to the cattle; and found that it amounted to one 

 " hundred and forty-eight days' labor. This, estimated at a dollar 

 " the day, is one hundred and forty-eight dollars ; to which adding 

 " fifteen dollars paid for labor in the month of June, the whole 

 " expense was one hundred and sixty-three dollars. 



" The manure, at the end of the soiling season, certainly 

 " equaled one hundred and twenty loads ; and could not have 

 " been bought and brought there for three hundred dollars. Let 

 " it be estimated at only two hundred dollars in value. No man 

 " can question, I think, the correctness of my assertion, that the 

 " value of the manure obtained is a clear compensation for this 

 '•'• amount of labor ; and this including all the expense of labor con- 

 '' nected with soiling. 



" It remains to be shown in what manner the whole process 

 '' ought to be conducted by any one who may originally attempt 

 " it, and also how far it is applicable to the farming condition of 

 '' New England, and what species of farmers would find their 

 " account in attempting it. 



" As to the manner in which the soiling process ought to be 

 " conducted, besides that general care and personal superintendence 

 " (at least occasionally, and by way of oversight) which is essential 

 " to success in this as in every other business in life, three general 

 " objects ought to claim the attention of every farmer or other 

 " person who undertakes this process. 



"i. Provision against seasons of extraordinary drought, or 

 " deficiency of general crop from any other natural accident. 



" 2. Succession of succulent food during the whole soiling sea- 

 " son, and facility of its attainment. 



" 3. Preparation relative to care of the stock, and increase of 

 " manure, — the particular objects of the soiling process." 



Concerning the crops to be raised for soiling, it is not possible 

 to give such specific directions as will be applicable to all parts of 

 the country, nor even to the circumstances of different farms in 

 the same district. In many instances, the luxurious growth of 

 meadows and clover-fields, together with the cuttings at the sides 

 of lanes and on the ground about the house, etc., will be a very 



