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for the loss or saving in the matter of fences alone; and by 
careful calculation of all the items and details, the farmer 
will find the account still greater in favor of feeding and ab¬ 
sence of fences; for the labor and money expended in fences if 
judiciously expended in additional cropping, and greensoiling, 
will be found to return much greater gains than are realized 
by the pasturing practice. And then if the new plan were 
generally adopted, and all farmers kept up their stock, as is 
the case in many of the best farming districts of Europe, most 
or all of the line fences would be unnecessary, and that great 
expense saved. In many portions of our country the cost of 
fences is greater than the cost of the land. The saving of 
manure—emphatically the farmer’s most reliable mint and 
renovator—is another considerable profit realized from this 
system. Indeed, it is maintained by those of largest ex¬ 
perience and observation in this matter, that that saving 
alone will more than pay the cost of cutting and feed¬ 
ing in yards and stalls, since the manure is all saved at the 
barn, to be used when and where most needed, instead of 
being dropped in the woods and roads, where it is mostly 
lost. This careful saving of the home manure is a far wiser 
and better paying plan than expending large sums of money 
and time in buying and hauling expensive foreign fertilizers 
from the market towns, many of which are of little value; 
while the manure from well-fed stock in the barnyard is much 
more useful than the fertilizers of commerce ; though some of 
them, as guano, plaster, phospates, etc., are more or. less useful 
on particular soils and locations. 
To render this system as pleasant and profitable as possible, 
rotation of crops and raising of roots will be required ; which 
will result in “keeping up” the land to the highest point and pre¬ 
vent exhaustion—in securing much greater bulk and value of 
product, and sustaining a much larger number of animals upon a 
given quantity of land. Only for fear of extending this arti¬ 
cle to an undue length, a concise and detailed statement of 
facts and figures might be here given of the order of rptation, 
and the manner of root-raising, which have been successfully 
