Partial Soiling. 



acre farm produce what generally requires 40c 

 S'oo acres, you can satisfy yourself with the old s 

 ing, " He laughs best who laughs last." 



I do not mean to advise you to go into the sys 

 with a rush. Go into it gradually. There are li 

 things that will come up the first year or two 1 

 may discourage you, something you did not tl 

 of. I shall try to give you my experience and p 

 tice, and if you keep near the line, I am sure 

 will succeed. But when you do try, put your ca 

 in the barn and feed them there. Put them in c 

 times and turn them into a small pasture or enclos 

 nights ; and whatever you do, do not begrudge a 

 tie extra labor. You cannot get something for ni 

 ing, but you can get more from soiling for the mo 

 expended than anything I know or ever heard o 

 connection with farming. 



Objections to Partial Soiling. 



One master cow will occupy a whole rack. A 

 she has mussed it over and breathed on it for a ti 

 others will only eat it when compelled to from t 

 ger. Feeding in the field is little better. The 

 tie drive and hook one another about, and gri 

 mouthful here and another there, and eat it in f 

 when they should have it by themselves in qv 

 They tramp upon it, foul it, tramp up the mead 

 destroying the grass and tramping in weed seed 

 tester vou for years to come. One cow sees 



