. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry ^^'^^U ^^- ^- TAYLOR, Chief. Washington, D. C. V September 20, 1916 THE GRAZING INDUSTRY OF THE BLUEGRASS REGION. By Lyman Carrier, Agronomist, Forage-Crop Investigations. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 1 The different grades oi bluegrass pastures 2 Effect of winter grazing on the sod 3 Kinds of live stock raised 5 Wintering the steers 5 Getting a sod S Value of a pasture when grazed with 9 Value of a pasture when grazed with 11 Maintaining the fertility of
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry ^^'^^U ^^- ^- TAYLOR, Chief. Washington, D. C. V September 20, 1916 THE GRAZING INDUSTRY OF THE BLUEGRASS REGION. By Lyman Carrier, Agronomist, Forage-Crop Investigations. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 1 The different grades oi bluegrass pastures 2 Effect of winter grazing on the sod 3 Kinds of live stock raised 5 Wintering the steers 5 Getting a sod S Value of a pasture when grazed with 9 Value of a pasture when grazed with 11 Maintaining the fertility of the soil 12 The proper rate to graze 14 Care of pastures 15 The supply of stockers 17 INTRODUCTION. Grazing bluegrass^ with horses, mules, cattle, sheep, or hogs is the leading agricultural industry of southwestern Virginia, the adjoining sections of West Virginia and Tennessee, the northwest-central por- tion of West Virginia, and a large area of central and western Ken- tucky. For the sake of convenience, as well as to emphasize the importance of bluegrass in that area, this section of country is referred to in this bulletin as the "bluegrass region," a term which is often thus apphed. (Fig. 1.) While pastures consisting in larger or smaller part of bluegrass cover about one-fourth of the improved farm land of -the northern part of the Mississippi VaUey and eastward to the Atlantic coast, the farm practice in utihzing these pastures over the greater part of that area differs considerably from that of the sections above mentioned. Fin- ishing beef cattle on grass, without grain, is not popular through most of the corn belt. Buyers usually discriminate against grass-fed stock; so while cattle may graze the pastures during the summer, they are either fed grain while on grass or are finished during the winter on grain. In the bluegrass region the cattle are finished on grass alone. Some farmers in this region feed sufficient grain during the winter to keep the 2 and 3 y
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