stall-feed

— This is, I believe, of no sort of use to a labourer; for though he may cultivate part of the land as a garden, the continued labour it would require to supply stall-feed for a cow, winter and summer, and the quantity of land he must till, would occupy so much of his time, that the take would, upon the whole, be injurious to him, even supposing the land inclosed and contiguous to his house; if at a distance, or not inclosed, the disadvantage will be still greater.

— Stubble would have been much cheaper for the littering part, but it is not always to be had; whereas straw is every where to be bought; and it is necessary to charge the price of it, because a farmer may probably have a regular stock of cattle for the straw of his crop; in which case he cannot stall-feed to advantage without buying more.