70 Soiling. 



vated land ; it has increased the quantity of manure 

 three times, and the quality of the same to five or six 

 times the amount produced by the hay and pasture 

 system. I find, in looking about, that thirty-six head 

 of full grown stock and seventy acres of marketable 

 crops (by soiling and ensilage) were about as much 

 as under the hay and pasture system was produced 

 from an average farm of five hundred acres. My 

 farm is by no means in a high state of cultivation 

 (about thirty to thirty-five bushels of wheat per 

 acre). The system has done no more for me than 

 it may do for any farmer who will conform to its re- 

 quirements, which are simple but exacting. 



From fifteen bushels of wheat per acre, and other 

 crops in proportion, the old farm at Maple Lane had 

 in eight years quite doubled that, having taken thirty 

 and one-fourth bushels of wheat per acre from the 

 same field that the first year produced only fifteen. 



THE INCREASED ACREAGE. 



In older countries the farmers have been obliged 

 to increase the yield of their present possessions by 

 doubling and trebling the acreage of their farms. 

 As in crowded cities they add to the capacity of 

 their factories and houses by building up story 

 above story, so the farmers of these older countries 

 build up their soil until they are two, three, or four 

 stories high. That is to say, they have increased 

 the productiveness of their soil, until one acre is 

 made to produce what formerly required two, three, 



