The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-12

acres OF land which bad alwsTs previously
required hfty." Over twenty-five years
later be retired from public life aud again
took charge of his farm and began again
his system or soiling and followed it for ten
years and in 1857, after an experience in all
OF eighteen years be wrote: "Since 1S47
have kept from thirty to thirty-hve head of
mich COWS in this. way, and have realized
every one of the advantages claimed for
the system by European writer's" AS to
saving OF land one acre soiled will produce
as much as three acres pastured Some
European writers assert the benefit Is equal
to tot7-this great difference arising from
the mode In which the land Is enriched and
cultiVSLed for succulent products. II. Stew
art says: ~. D. Powell Of Westchester
county, New York keeps 100 cows on 100
acres" and adds: II have kept Il Cows on
II acres the year round by feeding brewers
grains and bran and NEAL
Mr.. Peer says: 81 kept for two seasons
on thirty acres Of land, she equivalent Of
thirty-siX head of 900 pounds each, This
stock consisted OF thirteen COWS, Ave year
lings. four calves, four horses, two colts and
seventy long-wooled sheep, total of
ninety eight head Mr.. Peers farm con-
sists OF 100 acres of arabic land. and before
be began soiling he kept but twelve head Of
stock 1900 pounds each), and cultivated
forty acres. Under his present system he
cultlvstes seventy acres. An experiment.
of Mr.. Peer In 1880, contrasts the two sys-
terms: Twelve head Of cattle were pastured
four weeks on Az acres, and ate 1t so short
as to shrink greatly in their milk, they
were then soilsd four months from four
acres. In ali Mr.. PEERS summer feeding
no grain was used.
Elliot w. Stewart, IN bis work on "Feed-
ing Animals says; "a full crop of red
clover will weigh, green, 10000 pounds to
hA III G,1 IL se-
keep twenty COWS ten days, or one COW 200
days, and would furnish In the second and
third cuttings two-thirds as much more, or,
In all, food for one COW year. We have
raised clover that weighed "a 900 pounds
per acre at single cutting" Again he
says: "a neighbor Of mine measured ac-
curately one acre OF cornfield-grain in the
milk-and fed to 104 cows, and 1t gave full
feed for four days, or feed for one COW 416
days. These COWS were in milk, and yielded
literally on this ration"
The term ''soiling" is one of the meaning
less expressions in the vocabulary of agri-
culture. Ask the first five farmers you
meet what is meant by the term, and three,
II not four, will probably reply that it
means turning under green vegetable mat
ter to enrich the soil. We have put the
quostAOu 70 IhTLuoTs tlLu6 huu again, dnQ
almost invariably received this reply. A
better term could be substituted for it to
better express the meaning, but 1t is not
likely that q substitute will be made.
Stalling would be better.
"Soiling" means feeding cattle In their
stalls with green food, cut and carried to
them instead Of letting them pasture the
land. One acre thus fed is worth almost
two when pastured, for cattle destroy
great deal when allowed to run over a field
all day. An acre of fodder corn or clover
cut from day to day and fed to stock in
their stalls would probably 60 as far as 216
acres pastursd. Labor expended in thus
disposing of the green food will be found to
be a good investment. Il is practice that
ought to be more generally observed in the
south.