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great difference arising from the mode in which the land is en- 

 riched and cultivated for succulent products. Mr. II. Stewart, 

 in an article in The Country Gentleman, says : " J. D. Powell, 

 of Westchester County, keeps one hundred cows on one hun- 

 dred acres;" and adds, "I have kept fourteen cows on eleven 

 acres the year round by feeding brewer's grains and bran 

 and mecil." 



Mr. Peer, says : " I kept for two seasons on thirty acres of 

 land, the equivalent of thirty-six head of one thousand pounds 

 each. This stock consisted of 13 cows, 5 yearlings, 4 calves, 

 4 horses, 2 colts, and 70 long-wool sheep, a total of 98 head." 

 Mr. Peer's farm consists of one hundred acres of arable land, 

 and before he began soiling he kept but twelve head of stock 

 (one thousand pounds each), and cultivated forty acres. Under 

 his present system he cultivates seventy acres. An experiment 

 of Mr. Peer in 1880, contrasts the two systems : Twelve head 

 of cattle were pastured four weeks on four and a half acres, 

 and ate it so short as to shrink greatly in their milk ; they were 

 then soiled four months from four acres. In all Mr. Peer's sum- 

 mer feeding no grain was used. 



Mr. Elliot W. Stewart, in his work on " Feeding Animals," 

 says : "A full crop of red-clover will weigh, green, twenty thousand 

 pounds to the acre. This fed in its green state, will keep twenty 

 cows ten days, or one cow two hundred days, and would furnish 

 in the second and third cuttings two-thirds as much more, or, in 

 all, food for one cow a year. We have raised clover that weighed 

 twenty-four thousand pounds per acre at a single cutting." Again, 

 he says : " A neighbor of mine measured accurately one acre 

 of field-corn grain in the milk and fed to one hundred and 

 four cows, and it gave full feed for four days, or feed for one 

 cow four hundred and sixteen days. These cows were in milk, 

 and yielded liberally on this ration." 



Saving of Fences. The plan of fencing our farms into 

 fields, which is done only that we may be able to allow our 

 stock to gather their food from them, imposes one of the heaviest 

 burdens on the agriculture of our country. The adoption of 

 the soiling system by the individual would at once relieve the 



