On Stall Feeding and Clover Cultivation in Switzerland

A small decorative printer's ornament features stylized leaf and scroll motifs.

you expressed your astonishment at seeing all my cattle constantly kept in the stable on green fodder, instead of letting them out to the common pastures according to the local custom, in which my property has a significant share. I assured you that I found a great advantage in this method in every way, and I promised you to resolve your expressed doubts about this at my first leisure opportunity. Perhaps this may give you and your neighboring agricultural friends cause for further useful considerations, for what succeeds here in Switzerland in this regard should also find a place in your blessed and much more fertile Swabian lands.

The question is, therefore, whether it is more advantageous to feed cattle in the stall,