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her up through the year. In order to accomplish 

 this at the least possible expense, the soiling system, 

 which provides an abundance of rich, succulent food 

 the year round, will be found to meet every require- 

 ment. 



In feeding farm stock, it is the liberal hand that 

 maketh rich. Withholding will not enrich nor giv- 

 ing impoverish. With this hypothesis, the soiling 

 system is in perfect harmony. 



Looking at a cow as a machine, and a sheep as a 

 wool factory, we see the importance of not only 

 feeding liberally, if we would be economical, but of 

 providing the animals with food so that they are put 

 to the least wear and tear to obtain it. The food 

 which is consumed by a cow to replace and replen- 

 ish the wasted tissues caused by laboring all day to 

 collect her food, is by the soiling system put to a prac- 

 tical advantage and a profitable one as well. I shall 

 be able to illustrate this point more fully further 

 on under the chapter devoted to soiling sheep. 



The rearing of calves for dairy purposes is a sub- 

 ject to which I have given much attention, and al- 

 though I cannot enter into the details or give any- 

 thing like a complete treatise on that subject here, I 

 may say that for supplying growing calves with an 

 abundance of rich, succulent forage at a time of life 

 when they require the highest development of those 

 organs which constitute the machinery of a dairy 

 cow, there is no system of feeding to accomplish 

 this end like a well-conducted feeding of green for- 

 age to them in their stalls. 



