Partial Soiling. 79 



All partial soiling can do is to patch out a poor 

 pasture. You have not done away with any of the 

 annoyance or disadvantage, and the questions of the 

 saving of land, and manure, and fences, comfort of 

 stock, greater production of milk and butter, are not 

 answered. 



All these objections are easily overcome by simply 

 feeding the cows in their stables. The extra labor 

 of cleaning the stables is compensated, it is safe to 

 say, several times over in the question of manure 

 alone. Put them in the barn daytimes and turn 

 them out nights (after milking them), and milk them 

 in their stalls in the morning, thus avoiding all run- 

 ning and chasing, and clubbing them with milk- 

 stools, to say nothing about the greater comfort to 

 the milkers, especially in fly time. 



By partial soiling, as was said at the beginning, 

 you have all the loss and inconvenience of pasturing 

 with only a small fraction of the benefits; while 

 the greatest and most important lesson to be had 

 from a strict soiling system, i.e., greater production 

 of barnyard manure, is lost sight of. 



Let me admonish my readers who have hitherto 

 practised partial soiling to take just one more step 

 in advance, and you have my word for it that in 

 that one step you will go from darkness to light, 

 from patching an old garment to a new, up-to-date, 

 tailor-made suit which is yours almost for the ask- 

 ing. 



