. Productive agriculture . he clover will gather free nitrogen and store it in the is one of the most essential elements making for luxuri-ant vegetative growth. 2. Mixtures of plants grow at different seasons. Blue grassgrows well in early spring and in the late fall, but in dry, hotnnidsummer it does not thrive so well. White clover and alsikeare in their glory in hot midsummer. 3. The mixture of plants is capable of converting more soilplant foods into plant tissue because their root systems feed in I04 PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURE CORN ALFALFA different layers of the clove
. Productive agriculture . he clover will gather free nitrogen and store it in the is one of the most essential elements making for luxuri-ant vegetative growth. 2. Mixtures of plants grow at different seasons. Blue grassgrows well in early spring and in the late fall, but in dry, hotnnidsummer it does not thrive so well. White clover and alsikeare in their glory in hot midsummer. 3. The mixture of plants is capable of converting more soilplant foods into plant tissue because their root systems feed in I04 PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURE CORN ALFALFA different layers of the clovers have long tap-roots. The grasses feed atthe surface. 4. The mixture above sug-gested will fit different typesof soil. Alsike and red topwill grow in wet, cold acidplaces, and blue grass andwhite clover will do betterin sweet, medium moist soils. 5. A mixture of grasseswill furnish a variety of feeds, and will have a greater capacity for producing the productdesired. The proportion of protein is increased by the Courtesy of International Harvester Co, Fig. 43. —Grasses feed near the surface of thesoil, and legume roots feed much deeper. Digestible Parts of Pasture Plants Plant Dry Matter Fat Carbohvdbates Protein NutritiveRatio Blue grass .Red top .White cloverAlsike 2-3 I : 1:3-51 The narrow nutritive ratio of white clover and alsike indicatethe relative high protein content they contain. There is no one pasture plant that is better than blue grass inbeef production, but the above mixture is probably food production of a mixture of grass and clover per acreis greater remains unquestioned. Management of Pastures. — Weeds of various kinds, like PASTURES 105 dogs among sheep in the night, will appear and take for them-selves a large part of the soil moisture and soil foods. Theyreproduce so abundantly that they should be cut twice everyyear before they mature seeds. Sheep and goat
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