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ill the heating of the food or grassy matters when, 

 heaped together in the carts or other places, if suffered 

 to remain in such situations too long, and in some 

 other ways of still less consequence ; yet whatever such 

 waste may be, it is clear, from much experience, that 

 soiling is beneficial in better supporting stock in the 

 proportions already stated, and according to the na- 

 ture of circumstances. 



Excellence and Utility of the Practice in 

 Producing Manure. 



Another circumstance in which this management 

 in keeping neat cattle stock has a great advantage over 

 that of the pasture method, is that of the very large 

 quantity of good manure which it is capable of raising 

 and providing when well and properly executed, on 

 which the increased culture of many sorts of crops, 

 and the extended improvement of tillage as well as 

 grass lands, materially depends. In the usual mode 

 of pasture-feeding everything of this is dissipated, 

 wasted, and lost, by many different causes, and is rather 

 injurious than useful to the land where it is deposited. 

 The method by soiling, on the contrary, is extremely 

 and particularly well contrived for the production 

 of this material in an abundant manner. The increase 

 in the quantity of the urinary and other discharges 

 of the animals, the extent of litter capable of being 

 employed, and the materials which are scattered over 

 the yards and other places, are readily and easily 

 changed, and reduced into manure of a very useful 

 kind ; and by such means, with proper care and man- 

 agement, the most plentiful supplies of such manure 

 may be procured, where in other methods there would 



