On Stall Feeding and Clover Cultivation in Switzerland

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if their work is to be of any use and of some duration. In this regard, therefore, the advantage of grazing is by no means as great as the inexperienced might imagine. Not to mention how much time is often lost with the searching for draft animals, and sometimes the farmer runs around for entire hours and wears himself out before his daily work even begins.

All these are truths of everyday, general, and incontrovertible experience. It is certain that livestock:

a. Find neither proper care, nor often sufficient nutrition, and almost never the necessary rest through grazing.

b. That the rapid changes in weather, to which they are inevitably exposed on the pasture, must necessarily be detrimental to their