358 THE IMPROVED ART OF FARRIERY. 



mend it in the preventing of waste and in making 

 grass land go farther in the supporting of such stock, 

 which are considerations of great consequence in the 

 providing for such animals. 



The great superiority of this practice in saving 

 which it produces in the consumption of the food can- 

 not be questioned, as the various extensive trials that 

 have taken place fully prove that it is by such means 

 made to go from two to four or live times as far as 

 when eaten off on the land, and in some cases much 

 more ; and in different other trials with natural grass, 

 lucerne, tares, and clover, they have been found, in 

 this mode of use, to be capable of supporting from 

 three to five or six times as many neat cattle in better 

 and more full condition than in the pasture manner 

 of feeding them ; and it has been remarked, that in 

 this last method, great waste and destruction must 

 often necessarily be caused by the grass being so much 

 trampled upon, trodden down, dunged on, and in other 

 ways, especially where the quantity of cattle fed to- 

 gether is large ; and that of course most or all of such 

 sorts of waste are prevented in this method of pro- 

 ceeding. Besides, the poaching and injury to the 

 land in that way, which is often very great, is in this 

 wholly avoided. 



It is not, however, to be supposed that all the waste 

 is by pasture-feeding, and none at all in this way ; as 

 by soiling some little waste is occasionally incurred in 

 different manners, as in tare crops that have become 

 podded on account of the bottom parts of them getting 

 course, sticky, or in a state of decay, in consequence 

 of their resting so much on the ground, and thereby 

 become rejected by the stock, and the same with 

 lucerne when in full flower, as well as with some other 

 plants of such kinds. There is occasionally loss too 



