CHAPTER V. 



ADVANTAGES OF SOILING. 



THE advantages of soiling over pasturing are nu- 

 merous. The principal reasons for its adoption 

 may be found under the following headings: ist. 

 Saving the land. 2d. Saving of fences. 3d. Sav- 

 ing of food. 4th. The better condition and greater 

 comfort of farm animals. 5th. The greater produc- 

 tion of beef, milk, wool, or mutton. 6th. The in- 

 creased quantity and quality of barnyard manure. 

 7th. The increased fertility of the soil.' 8th. The 

 increased acreage of the farm. 



The disadvantage of the system as compared with 

 pasturing is extra labor. 



THE SAVING OF LAND. 



Says the Hon. Josiah Quincy, whose experience 

 in soiling covered a period of eighteen years: " One 

 acre soiled from will produce as much as three acres 

 pastured in the usual way, and there is no proposi- 

 tion in nature more true than that any good farmer 

 may maintain upon thirty acres of land twenty head 

 of cattle the year round. " He adds : " My own ex- 

 perience has always been less than this, having ex- 

 ceeded seventeen acres for twenty head. " 



Mr. Henry Stewart, of New York, says : " I have 

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