On Stall Feeding and Clover Cultivation in Switzerland

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his deeply ingrained envy toward all his peers, his mistrustful heart toward his leadership and national authorities are such obstacles that nothing but patience and wisdom, or else a wholesome coercion, will ever be able to overcome them generally. But that private individuals, who have complete freedom to arrange themselves as they please on their estates and lands, can still cling to this miserable habit of grazing is almost incomprehensible, if they have ever thoroughly weighed, considered, and calculated the matter as true managers. All the objections that I have ever heard raised against stable feeding mainly boil down to this:

1. The better health of the livestock requires grazing, especially since freedom is the natural state of animals.