48 Soiling. 



yond all expectation. I was surprised also at the 

 very small amount of ground required daily to sup- 

 port them handsomely, and I was still more sur- 

 prised to find that the extra labor required to feed 

 the cows and cut the clover in this manner was 

 nothing like what I had imagined it would be, and 

 then it dawned upon me that I might do this way 

 all summer. Why not keep twelve cows instead of 

 six? Make twice as much manure, and manure 

 twice as good in quality, which amounts to four 

 times as much. That's the thing to do, and the 

 greatest load I ever attempted to carry in the form 

 of a business enterprise was saddled onto soiling, 

 and I found soiling quite able to carry it and much 

 more besides. Thus began what proved to be the 

 most successful and most economical method of 

 feeding farm stock. Thus I found a solution to the 

 question. How to enrich the farm in a sure and 

 economical way ; how to supply the farm stock with 

 the most nutrious food at the least cost ;. how to ob- 

 tain a fujl flow of milk from our cows during the 

 entire season, independently of parched pastures; 

 how to increase the number of farm stock and the 

 acreage of the farm without buying more land. 



