xxxii Notices for a Young Farmer 



cent preventives and remedies. Do not depend on charla- 

 tans, or servants, for what a little attention on your part 

 might avoid or remedy. Never neglect frequent visits to 

 your farm yard and stables. Good servants are encouraged, 

 and bad ones detected, by such attentions to your own affairs. 



Keeping accurate and lawful Weights and Measures, 

 is not only demanded by integrity in dealing; hut it teaches 

 a habit of looking into the minute details of your affairs, 

 highly conducive to profit and economy. When this habit is 

 fixed, you will do nothing at random ; but symmetry and cal- 

 culation will appear in all your concerns; and success will 

 generally crown endeavours planned agreeably to well ascer- 

 tained data, and not undertaken with thoughtless conjecture 

 and hazardous guess work. Feeding your stock by weight 

 and measure of food, will not only save your provender, by 

 its orderly distribution, but, frequently, the lives of animals; 

 too often starved by niggardliness or neglect, or gorged and 

 destroyed by profusion. If it be true, as it is, that "the mas- 

 ter's eye makes the horse fat ;" it is equally so, that the mas- 

 ter's eye prevents the horse from being pampered, wanton, 

 pursive, hloated, foundered, and, finally, wind-broken and 

 hlind. 



When any of your live stock die of disease, or invisible 

 casualty, have them opened ; for discovery of the cause, and 

 future instruction. 



XVII. Feeding, in stalls, or Pens, on green forage, which 

 is called soiling, has not been sufficiently practised here, for 

 us to form decisive opinions of its practicability and prefe- 

 rence, under our circumstances. It has been favourably re- 

 presented hy some who have tried it; and it merits farther 

 experiment. If proper preparation be made, so that a certain 

 succession of green food could be ensured ; the practice, in 

 many situations where labour is at command, and droughts 

 do not interrupt the supplies, appears highly commendable, 

 on the score of saving our summer food, by expending it at 

 our pleasure, in place of suffering cattle, at their will, care- 

 lessly to browze over and waste much pasture. It saves the 

 expense of inclosurcs: which, in our mode of dividing farms. 



