50 Soiling. 



kept the same amount of stock by soiling on seven- 

 teen acres that I previously kept on fifty acres." 



By soiling, D. J. Powell, of Winchester, keeps 100 

 cows on 100 acres, and he adds that "with complete 

 soiling I have kept fourteen cows on eleven acres 

 the year around, with the help of a few loads of 

 brewer's grains and some bran and meal." 



Where land is in a high state of cultivation some 

 farmers claim to keep as many as seven and eight 

 head by soiling where they were able to keep but 

 one by pasturing. I think, as a rule, it is safe to 

 say that, whatever land is required to support a 

 full-grown animal during the pasturing season, the 

 same land will support five or six head by soiling. 

 My own experience has been even better than this. 

 My farm at Maple Lane contained just about 100 

 acres of land inside the fences, after taking out roads, 

 lanes, buildings, and woodland. On this loo-acre 

 farm, before adopting soiling, I was only able to 

 support twelve head of stock, which required of hay 

 and pasture sixty acres per year, or five acres per 

 head, which I find is about the usual amount 

 throughout the country on good and fairly produc- 

 tive farms. This left forty acres for marketable 

 crops. 



After adopting the soiling system, the number of 

 farm stock increased until I had thirteen age cows, 

 five yearlings, four calves, four horses, two colts, 

 and seventy long-wooled (Cotswold) sheep. Esti- 

 mating 1,000 Ib. for a full-grown animal, this was 

 equivalent to thirty-six head. These thirty-six 



