. Forage crops other than grasses [microform] : how to cultivate, harvest and use them. Forage plants; Plantes fourragères. U! ^ould also be an f the long season ection, therefore, ire the crops that lich are the crops s grown. Cattle the year on grass is true of sheep, in the autumn or feed on clover, le year, and they CHAPTER XIII. SHEEP PASTURES GROWN AT THE MINNESOTA UNI- VERSITY EXPERIMENT FARM. During the past three years experiments have l)een conducted in growing various kinds of pasture for sheep at the Minnesota University experiment farm. This work was begun and carried out under th
. Forage crops other than grasses [microform] : how to cultivate, harvest and use them. Forage plants; Plantes fourragères. U! ^ould also be an f the long season ection, therefore, ire the crops that lich are the crops s grown. Cattle the year on grass is true of sheep, in the autumn or feed on clover, le year, and they CHAPTER XIII. SHEEP PASTURES GROWN AT THE MINNESOTA UNI- VERSITY EXPERIMENT FARM. During the past three years experiments have l)een conducted in growing various kinds of pasture for sheep at the Minnesota University experiment farm. This work was begun and carried out under the supervision of the author. It is unique in char- acter and the results obtained have been not a little remarkable. Only the merest outline of the work can be given hei e, though every detail thereof should be of interest to the flockmaster. Objects Sought.—The following are chief among the objects sought in the experiment, viz.: I. to ascertain the extent to which sheep may be confined with safety to pastures other than those provided by the ordinary grasses without endanger- ing their good health; 2, to ascertain the various plants that are the most suitable to provide such pastures, and also the relative suitability of these; 3, to ascertain the best modes of growing them and of pasturing them when grown; 4, to ascertain the maximum amount of sustenance that could thus he procured for sheep under the conditions, or, in other words, to find out how many sheep could be sus- tained on a limited area and also the mutton product therefrom for the season; and, 5, to ascertain the influence of such a system of pasturage upon the cleaning of the land and also upon the maintenance of fertility in the same. 261 II. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shaw, Thomas, 1843-1918. New York : Orange-Judd
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