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they can keep a cow to every acre and a half, or two acres, their 

 farms will be, practically, as large as their more favored neigh- 

 bors. And when the system is demonstrated by the small, the 

 large farmers will adopt it in mortification at the comparison." 



ANOTHER EXPERIMENT. 



Exhaustive as these extended remarks may appear, we add an 

 article, which has since come under our notice, from the "Prac- 

 tical Farmer," published in Philadelphia, which confirms our own 

 opinions, as u, tried test, of the benefits of soiling dairy cows in 

 ■summer. The great value of this improved mode of feeding 

 will justify its insertion. 



"It is an account of a dairy farm in Chester County, Pa., owned 

 and carried on by a merchant in Philadelphia. He began farm- 

 ing four years ago, having about one hundred acres of cleared 

 land, for which he purchased twelve cows and two heifers. He 

 engaged a farmer, who continued in charge two years, and made 

 one thousand four hundred and thirty-two pounds of butter the 

 first year, and one thousand five hundred pounds the second 

 year This was principally from pasture alone, iia provisions 

 having been made, by growing early rye, corn fodder, or any 

 other green food, to keep up a plentiful supply, either early or 

 late in the season, when pasture was short, and it is so indispens- 

 able, in order to keep up the condition of the cows and their 

 milk. The third year, the proprietor undertook the management 

 himself, and made two thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight 

 pounds of butter; and during the fourth year, ending April 1, 

 1867, he made four thousand and fifty-five pounds, having 

 increased his stock from fourteen up to twenty head — five of the 

 latter, heifers with their first calves. He says : 



"'Now I suppose it will b« asked by what management the 

 butter was increased from one thousand four hundred and thirty- 

 two pounds, to four thousand and fifty-five pounds. There was 



