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placed on my farm for thirty dol- 

 lars ; and which 1 could have sold 

 there for twenty doilnrs, upon the 

 condition it should be carried away. 

 It cost me as above stated fifteen 

 dollars in the labour of the atten- 

 dant. 



Daring the remaining tive months 

 I added another man, because I 

 found that a great economy in vege- 

 table food would result from cutting 

 it into pieces by a cutting knife, 

 and mixmg with it about one third 

 of cut salt hay, or straw. This was 

 done, and 1 kept an accurate ac- 

 count of all the labour of cutting 

 the food in the tield, bringing it in- 

 to the barn, cutting it up there, cut- 

 ting salt hay or straw to mix with 

 it, mixing this food, and delivering 

 it to the cattle and found that it 

 amounted to one hundred and forty 

 eight days labour. This estimated 

 at a dollar the day is one hundred 

 and forty eight dollars, to which 

 aciding fifteen dollars paid for la- 

 bour, in the month of June, the 

 whole expense was one hundred 

 and sixty three dollars. 



The manure at the end of the 

 soiling season, certainly equalled 

 one hundred and twenty loads, and 

 could not have been bought, and 

 brought there for three hundred 

 dollars. Let it be estimated at only 

 two hundred dollars in value. JNo 

 man can question. 1 thiid<,the cor- 

 rectness of my assertion, that the 

 value of manure obtained, is a clear 

 compensation for the amount of la- 

 bour; and this incliidinfj; all the 

 expense of labour, connected with 

 soiling. 



In No. 4, vol. vi. of the Agricul- 

 tural Repository, Mr. Quincy pur- 



sues the subject, and observes thaf.' 

 " in soiling, being guided by the na- 

 ture of the climate, and by the con- 

 sideration of the vegetables, select- 

 ed being best known and most sue- 

 cessfully cultivated in the neigh- 

 bourhood, I use but four, 1st. grass ; 

 2d. oats; 3d. Indian corn; 4tb. 

 cabbages." 



He thinks, however, that it would 

 be wise and practicable to intro- 

 duce some vegetable, whicb, sown 

 the preceding }ear, would enable 

 the farmer to conimence cutting 

 earlier. He considers one quwter 

 of an acre of his best grass produc- 

 ing land as appropriated to each 

 head of soiling cattle, for its sup- 

 port between the 20th May and 

 1st of July. " Small farmers, who 

 should top-dress the land every 

 day. cut over, with water leached 

 from the manure heap, would re- 

 duce the extent of land required 

 for the process of soiling very con- 

 siderably." Oats, sowed as early 

 as possible, he uses for soiling near- 

 ly, or quite through the month of 

 July. " One square rod of oats, in 

 full milk, growing on land in pro- 

 per, {that is high) tilth zcill support 

 one head of cattle a day. One 

 quarter of an acre, or forty square 

 rods, for thirty days, is a fair basis 

 of calculation, and making a liberal 

 allowance for accident." The 

 oats, if relied on for the whole 

 month of July should be sowed in 

 succession, one half as early as the 

 seed can be got into the ground, 

 and the other half about a fortnight 

 later. Indian corn should likewise 

 be sowed at about the rate of a 

 quarter of an acre for each head a 

 month. The land to be in good 



