. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture [microform] : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry as adapted to Canadian soils and climate : comprising: the field; produce of the farm; stock raising and management; manufactures of the farm; dairy; diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs; farm buildings, modern machinery and implements : counsel to the immigrant-settler, Agriculture; Farms; Agriculture; Exploitations agricoles. i I II >it l! it JB . m :' H [i m^i H ii y,i:i:: 1 L > 320 The Canadian Farmer's none of tho crops used for Hoilinj]; are portnittcd to go to «co(l,
. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture [microform] : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry as adapted to Canadian soils and climate : comprising: the field; produce of the farm; stock raising and management; manufactures of the farm; dairy; diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs; farm buildings, modern machinery and implements : counsel to the immigrant-settler, Agriculture; Farms; Agriculture; Exploitations agricoles. i I II >it l! it JB . m :' H [i m^i H ii y,i:i:: 1 L > 320 The Canadian Farmer's none of tho crops used for Hoilinj]; are portnittcd to go to «co(l, and that a groat atiiuuiit of iiianuru xh made to ruturn to i\w tields. What it taken to Soil rods, and conunenced leeding it to seven cows and four liorses: it fed them liberally fifteen days. The two succeeding years wo tried tlie same experiment, the animals dilfcring somowhat, but with the same result. In each cjiso wo found forty H(|uaro rods eipial to the summer feeding of ono cow. These crops of clover were very hojivy, and could not always i>e ecpuilled ; yot, allowing for contingencies, we came to estimate one half aero of land in good condition in clover as adeijuato to the summering of a cow ; thus making soiling equal to from four to six times the space in pas- ture. We tried afterwards much larger experiments—Sdiling thirty-fivo cattle and horses, and using some land in much poorer culture ; but wo found the saving comparatively (piite as encour- aging. We selected ono hundred acres—barely sutlicient to have jtastured this number of animals—ton of it in clover, oats and sowed corn ; wo fed them from the 20th day of May to the 1st day of December. Wo had a Bur|)lus of sixty-five tons of hay, after feeuing those animals six months and ten days, which sold in the burn for S!) It required six hoiirs' labour per day to .si)il them, which amounted (in those cheap times) to S0'">.()(). One hundred loads of manure were saved in fine condition, wort
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