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One point is fully settled, that it is for the interest of the 

 farmer as far as possible to raise his own stock. I have already 

 remarked on this point in speaking of the advantages with 

 which in doing this he might apply to the support of such 

 stock the coarse fodder of his farm. A good deal now is 

 suffered to perish in the field, or is consumed there to very lit- 

 tle advantage, which might be applied to the raising of young 

 stock. Much of our straw of grain, which is now applied to 

 purposes of mere litter, might undoubtedly with more advantage 

 be applied as the feed of stock, if, at the same time, we should 

 produce other articles to go with it. If the English can rear 

 stock, and fatten stock of the very best quality upon straw and 

 turnips, why cannot we do the same ? I do not mean to speak 

 of turnips in preference to any other crop. I am disposed to 

 think that there are other esculent vegetables, which may be 

 raised for stock in equal amount to an acre, at a not much 

 greater expense, and to a greater profit than turnips. Farmers 

 can only determine this by actual experiment. But I mean 

 simply to say, that the farmers may raise to advantage, some 

 esculent vegetables, such as turnips, ruta-baga, mangel-wurtzel, 

 carrots, beets or parsnips, which combined with straw would 

 enable them to consume their straw with advantage to them- 

 selves and to their stock. 



Few farmers on the river have pasturage sufficient for the 

 summer keeping of stock, even if they had the means of sus- 

 taining them in the winter. But pasturage can always be had 

 at reasonable rates either for the land or the feed, within a dis- 

 tance not great; or such stock could be sent in summer even 

 to a considerable distance, where pasturage might be found at 

 very low rates ; and the extraordinary advantages, which a 

 farmer would find in raising his own stock for his stall instead 

 of purchasing them, can admit of no question. 



But there is another mode of raising stock, by those who 

 have a small extent of pasturage connected with their farms, 

 which I am persuaded might often be pursued to a great profit ; 

 and that is by soiling-r-that is, by feeding them with green feed 



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