PRACTICAL PAPERS—STOCK ON THE FARM. 
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ready broken and manageable; needing only to be kindly 
taught what is required of them, which they will readily do 
without vicious contest or fright. 3. Being kept up and 
fed, the stock is secure from the many accidents incident to 
running out, of which .every farmer knows. Those which 
need it, and at suitable times each day, will be allowed to 
run in the yards or lanes suffieiently for exercise. 4. Being 
quiet and peaceful and not harrassed by dogs or,other causes, 
they require less feed to sustain the same conditions of flesh, 
milk or toil, and being better sheltered they grow and thrive 
better. 5. Less trouble and expense are required to remove 
them from place to place, or to market. 6. The vexing annoy¬ 
ance of “ breechy ” cattle—at home and abroad—are all pre¬ 
vented. Often more damage is done in a single day or night 
than the worth of the animal commiting it; individual and 
neighborhood quarrels and expensive litigations are engen¬ 
dered very often by trespassing cattle running at large, result¬ 
ing often in losses of time, money and expensive lawsuits, to a 
greater amount than the worth of the animal and the damage 
done combined, besides exciting enmities and hatreds of life¬ 
time endurance with the parties ; all of which is avoided where 
stock is kept up. This fact alone should have great weight 
in the minds of all our operators. 7. Yast saving is made in 
the expense of fencing, as will be fully explained, further on 
in this article. 8. By the mode of cropping, required by this 
plan, the lands will produce much larger yield, annually, 
than under the usual mode. It is well known that 
lands which are liberally manured will yield much more 
in bulk and better quality of feed when frequently cut 
during the season, than if left to grow until ripe. For 
instance, if a field that is in high tilth be sown to oats, corn, 
millet, &c., and be several times cut, as it attains a fair growth, 
it will afford two or three times as much good succulent feed 
as if cut late and but onee, during the growing season. The 
same is true with elover and meadow grasses. This result is in 
obedience to a common and well-known law of vegetable 
growth, whereby plants constantly strive to reproduce or per- 
