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great advantage, i.e., that by growing ensilage, you 

 made one acre produce what formerly required five, 

 six, and eight. The same is true of soiling. It is 

 the increased acreage without buying more land that 

 gives the system an advantage so wide, so great, so 

 unmistakable that there leaves nothing more to be 

 said. Lately our stations have taken up soiling. 

 Most of them are looking to see how many more 

 quarts of milk are produced by one system over the 

 other. Of course, it is always in favor of soiling, 

 but that is but one of the least of the advantages. 

 Others talk about the saving of fences, better con- 

 dition of the cattle ; but the two great questions are 

 the gfreater production of barnyard manure, and the 

 still greater advantage that it enables us to double, 

 and treble, and quadruple our acreage without buy- 

 ing more land. 



Do you say that this is too good to be true? Do 

 you doubt its practical application to farming in 

 general? Let me show you where a single colony 

 of 1, 200 farmers are all producing much better results 

 than any herein reported. I refer to the Channel 

 islands, Guernsey and Jersey. The island of Jersey 

 is twelve to fourteen miles long, and four to seven 

 miles wide. It has a population of 5 5 , 000, with 40, 000 

 to 50,000 visitors annually. The average size of the 

 farms is eight acres, and there are about 10,000 

 acres farmed. On this amount of farming land, 

 there were, according to the last census, ii,8gi head 

 of Jerseys and 2,343 horses. This makes 14,234 

 head of live-stock that are being supported from 



