The Ohio farmer . eping it dark,cool and moist, all ofwhich are beneficial tothe soil-enriching bac-teria. By keeping thesoil filled with livingroots and rootlets blue-grass allows no plantfood to be lost. Farmers everywhereare complaining of thescarcity of satisfactoryfarm labor,and well maythey complain; but bydevoting a part of thefarm to permanent pas-ture, and grazing livestock, more can be ac-complished in the wayof labor-saving than inany other manner. Per-manent pastures doaway with the need of so much high-priced labor, farm teams, plowing,har-vesting, threshing, machinery, gr
The Ohio farmer . eping it dark,cool and moist, all ofwhich are beneficial tothe soil-enriching bac-teria. By keeping thesoil filled with livingroots and rootlets blue-grass allows no plantfood to be lost. Farmers everywhereare complaining of thescarcity of satisfactoryfarm labor,and well maythey complain; but bydevoting a part of thefarm to permanent pas-ture, and grazing livestock, more can be ac-complished in the wayof labor-saving than inany other manner. Per-manent pastures doaway with the need of so much high-priced labor, farm teams, plowing,har-vesting, threshing, machinery, grazing season can be lengthenedand the feeding period shortened. The stock feeder may succeed with-out permanent pasture but the stockbreeder can not, for right at the foun-dation of successul stock breeding isgood permanent pasture. Choice blue- any other kind of feeding, and dailygains of 2, 3 and even more poundshave been secured on steers duringthe grazing season. Where winterfeeding of cattle is practiced, two. BEEF STEERS ON BLUEGRASS PASTURE—IOWA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
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