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On Soilmg Cattle, By John Lorain, 

 Read Januaiy, 1811. 



Tackoneij, 20th December^ 18 10-. 



Sir, 



I purpose at this time to enter no further into the 

 subject of soiling, than what relates to the grasses for 

 and against it, and the management of the cattle, unless 

 as I proceed it may be considered better to make ob- 

 servations now, on some other things connected with 

 that system. 



The varieties of grasses on this place are very incon- 

 siderable ; green grass, timothy, and orchard grass, have 

 been my principal dependence for soiling the cattle, but 

 there is also some blue grass, white clover, and other 

 native grasses, and to none of those have they disco- 

 vered any marks of dislike, and they have been tried 

 with some very coarse from a wet spot in a bottom 

 meadow, to which they did not object; they will also 

 eat crop or fall grass freely, likewise a multitude of 

 weeds which they reject in the fields, and having been 

 compelled from necessity to cut a barley stubble crop 

 of tall oat grass for them, they also eat this freely, and 

 as it has since grown sufficient for a short cut with the 

 scythe, promises great usefulness in soiling. 



If the cattle are fed with red clover in the spring be- 

 fore the heads are beginning to form, they will in gene- 

 ral eat but little of it for the first day or two, but after 

 this feed more freely on it, and when the heads are 

 pretty generally formed or forming, they continue to eat 



