. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. njures it posed to 3 cattle's )th cases the land grazing ore than domestic ' opinion perience. 1 remain I drought bllowing id off my d care to :)tect the link it an to be fed CO a bet- practice udgment nns it as the sea^ , chiefly, ^ason of s, — par- 'otection ^tractive er. All nder a
. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. njures it posed to 3 cattle's )th cases the land grazing ore than domestic ' opinion perience. 1 remain I drought bllowing id off my d care to :)tect the link it an to be fed CO a bet- practice udgment nns it as the sea^ , chiefly, ^ason of s, — par- 'otection ^tractive er. All nder all I thrifty ored up IMPROVEMENT OF PASTURES. 355 in the roots over winter for the early use of the plant If it is closely fed, the spring growth must be proper- tionably later and feebler. But one of the most important questions which the farmer in the older sections of the country has to meet is the proper treatment of his pasture lands. Many of our old pastures have been stocked hard, time out of mind, and the grasses in them have been literally starved out, and grow thin of necessity, while, as the finer and nutritious grasses disappear, nature very kindly covers up the nakedness of the soil with moss, as an evidence of the effect, and not the cause, of poverty. They are said to be " worn " or " run ; ]\[any of them are grown over with bushes and briers, and other equally worthless pests, till they carry but one animal to four or five acres, and often require twice that amount to keep an animal on foot, to say nothing of fattening him. It is a well-known saying, that " poor pastures make breachy ; Undoubtedly, thousands of acres in the older states would be far more profitably covered with pines than with cattle, and many an observing farmer is now con- vinced of this fact; but still we must have pasture lands, and there are circumstances where it becomes important to improve them, and increase their produc- tiveness. Some of the
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