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soiling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Soil \Soil\ (soil), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Soiled (soild); p. pr. & vb. n. Soiling.] [OF. saoler, saouler, to satiate, F. so[^u]ler, L. satullare, fr. satullus, dim. of satur sated. See Satire.] To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
Wiktionary
n. An act of making dirty. vb. (present participle of soil English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Soiling may refer to:
- Encopresis, involuntary fecal incontinence in children
- Fecal incontinence
- Fecal leakage, a type of fecal incontinence in adults causing minor staining of undergarments
Usage examples of "soiling".
No other variety of clover grown in America will furnish as much of either pasture or soiling food.
Usually, however, even on upland soils and in the absence of irrigation, not fewer than 3 to 5 cuttings of soiling food are obtained each year and not fewer than 2 to 4 crops of hay.
In furnishing soiling food where it produces freely, it is without an equal in all the United States.
In climates much subject to frequent rains in summer, it should be grown rather for soiling food and pasture than for hay, whereas in dry climates, and especially where it can be irrigated, it should be grown for hay, soiling food and pasture, but especially the former.
In some counties of New York, as Onondaga and Madison, it is becoming the leading soiling and hay crop.
Near Montreal it has been cut for soiling food at the height of 30 inches as early as May 15th.
Alfalfa in these soils will serve even better than medium red clover in such situations, since while it is growing, it will produce more hay or soiling food, and consequently should excel the former in the fertility which it makes available.
In Louisiana, for instance, alfalfa may be made to furnish soiling food for nine months in the year.
Every dairyman dependent more or less on soiling food will find it to his advantage to grow alfalfa where it may be grown in good form.
This in practice may not always be possible, but usually an approximation to it may be reached, especially when the production of the alfalfa will more than supply the needs in soiling food.
But where irrigating waters are unfailing, it is quite possible to furnish soiling food from alfalfa soils through practically all the growing season.
Because of this, as previously intimated, it may be well to arrange, where practicable, to cut the first crop of the season for soiling food.
In some of the river bottoms southward in the Rocky Mountains, where irrigating waters are plentiful, it is claimed that alfalfa may be made to furnish one cutting for soiling food every month in the year.
North from the Ohio and Potomac rivers three to five cuttings of soiling food may be looked for each season, and south of these rivers even a larger number.
On these lands it is usually grown in long rotations for pasture and also for hay, and when the sod is again plowed, it is followed by corn, potatoes, rape, and grains grown for soiling uses, since such land has naturally high adaptation for these.