CHAPTER Vi 

 PARTIAL SOILING. 



MY experience in partial soiling is not particularly 

 satisfactory as compared with a strict soiling sys- 

 tem. It is a step in the right direction, and is just 

 that much better than pasturing. But, as said be- 

 fore, you get all the discomforts of the system, and 

 only a small share of the benefits. If you should 

 see a man cut his hay or ensilage, and bring it to 

 the barn and dump it on the ground, you would say, 

 " Why do you not stack it properly? See what a 

 great waste and inconvenience. Why do you not 

 run your ensilage fodder through a cutter and put 

 it in the silo, and do the work properly? Half do- 

 ing a thing is never more than starting." Well, 

 that is how it always looks to me to see a man try- 

 ing partial soiling. Take my advice and go the 

 whole figure. Do it right, as you would do anything 

 else, and you will, at least, know whether the system 

 is good or bad. You simply do not know how good 

 it is, because you never tried. You can never learn 

 to skate by simply sliding on the ice, or to swim by 

 taking a foot bath. 



It is something of an effort to begin. You: 

 neighbors will probably laugh at you and call you a 

 book farmer and that sort, but when you make a 100 



