CHAPTER XVIII. 

 SOILING HORSES. 



Brood Mares and Colts. 



After leavingf the Maple Lane farm in 1883, and 

 where the operations in soiling and ensilage began, 

 and were recorded in the first volume of this work, 

 published in the winter of 1880 and 1881, we moved 

 to Livingston County, N. Y., where on the " Murray 

 Hill" Farm the soiling sj^stem summer and winter 

 was practised, with thirty-six head of Jersey cattle 

 and forty-two head of Cotswold sheep. To this stock 

 fourteen brood mares and twelve colts were put on a 

 strict soiling system, while the five stallions in the 

 stud came in for no small share. Two two-year-olds 

 were fed on soiling crops almost entirely, while the 

 three stallions in the stud were put on soiling crops 

 after the spring breeding season was over, so that 

 with cattle, horses, brood mares, and colts, and 

 sheep, to say nothing of the swine, we were soiling 

 all told at least sixty head of full-grown stock, not 

 counting in the stallions. 



The forage for these sixty head, counting pasture, 

 hay, silage, and soiling crops, was sixty-nine acres of 

 land the first year. We remained on the " Murray 

 Hill" Farm only three years, when the cattle and 



