16 ON SOILING AND SHED-FEEDING. 



a few weeks, as deemed advisable, according- to tlie tlien state 

 of the markets. 



In conclusion, the writer beg's to state that xmder this 

 system of manag'ement he has sold his cast-off stock for from 

 IG/. to 21/., their jjrice being- ])artly reg-ulated by a g-reater 

 or less number of steers, as well as the price of beef at the 

 time of the selling- of the stock. 



Farmer's Magazine, January, 1847. 



: Art. IV.— on SOILING AND SHED-FEEDING. 



By John Bravender, F.G.S., Surveyor, Ciren-cester. 



Shed-feeding sheep, stall-feeding- cattle, and soiling-, are 

 practices which will g-radually force themselves on the 

 farmer's notice. It is also more profitable to keep working- 

 horses and oxen in yards on clover, vetches, and sainfoin ; 

 and were the plan to be g-enerally adopted, all the land on 

 which they have hitherto been g-razing- would be better 

 broken up. Those lands are, g-enerally speaking-, not of the 

 best cpudity, and for that, among-st other reasons, would 

 answer better under the ploug-h than in pasture. It may 

 be so said of dairy cows, but that cannot be realized until 

 we shall have advanced some steps further in ag-ricultural 

 science, and are enabled to make g-ood butter and cheese 

 from seed pasture, vetches, sainfoin, clover, and roots. If 

 we could accomplish this, cows mig-lit be soiled in yards, 

 and supplied with food from the arable land, which would 

 be the means of creating- a vast amount of additional em- 

 ployment for the labourer, independent of the breaking- up 

 of their former pastures. Nearly all the lands occupied by 

 dairy farming" mig-ht then be broken up, without fear of a 

 scarcity of cheese, butter, or milk. Should the time ever 

 arrive when even half of the land thus occupied can be 

 spared to be converted into arable, Ave sh-all increase our 

 produce of food for man and beast to an amazing- extent, and 

 there would not be found a man, who is willing- and able to 



