Cattle In The Field

í ha jJtfiwie l'tinntr, in an nrlicle on the preservution of' the furlility oí o;r flilds, advises that the oattlo be not allowed to fecd them down during the ftl!. It saya : "It is a eustom among many to feed ofi tho sceond erop ol tlieir inowing fiulils wilb eatt!t This s cailed 'turning intu the fu 1 1 feed.' Many believe that thi.s raotice does no dainogb tu monicg fieldt; - lliat tlie hay crop v.ill be jiwt as large duriug tho next year as i thu caUlc had not fucl t oíF - that it s the sMüi-j in effout as cntling 'rowen,or aítertnath andcarrying it into the buril. A littlo experiunce aud observation will oonvinee one that this is íot in fact thu case. If the catllc, ín thehtfttulu of gathering tho seccnd crop, nipped no oloser than the scytho, or tramped it no harder than tho man who inows and gathers it in does, perhaps there vvould be littlo differenee in tho two, but tho í'aot a, that cattle not onlv nip close anl hard, bnt they aro generally a'lowed to íolljvv it up until snow flios and covers tho ground up - iVy that time the soil s pretty e) striped of hárbügo, and lias no elothing tor winter, and but a little fund to etart upon next spring. "Now, if tho grasa had boen sufkred to grow after all the haying from it had buen closed there vvould be not only a coating oí graas to servo as a protectiro mulch to roots durirfg winter, but tho heads or collars of tha roots vvould be stored with food for the early nourishinont of the starting blades of tho coming eeason."