. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 tRije Qxsehzv anb gpowtxnum* Septewefb 8,1900 THE FARM. Doubling the Value of a Pasture. It ie an easy matter to make a pasture carry three times as miny aheep as it otherwise would by dividing it and using each part for a reasonable time and then changing to the other before one is eaten down too much. When on a large pasture a flock will wander all over it, eating here and there and soiling the uneaten parts, and then refuse to feed longer, but spend their time in seeking some way to escape from it, and generally finding one before long. Then the usefulnea
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 12 tRije Qxsehzv anb gpowtxnum* Septewefb 8,1900 THE FARM. Doubling the Value of a Pasture. It ie an easy matter to make a pasture carry three times as miny aheep as it otherwise would by dividing it and using each part for a reasonable time and then changing to the other before one is eaten down too much. When on a large pasture a flock will wander all over it, eating here and there and soiling the uneaten parts, and then refuse to feed longer, but spend their time in seeking some way to escape from it, and generally finding one before long. Then the usefulneap of the flock is gone, for once restless, sheep are always bo, aod a restless Bheep is a bad sheep. For a tweDty acre field and a hundred Bheep we would divide the pasture into five parts and keep the Bheep on each part until is eaten pretty close, then would feed Bome grain feed for a few days, after which the flock would be turned onto toe new ground. It would be very profitable then to run a harrow over the pastured field and bow a barrel of salt and one of ground gypsum, with a few pounds of mixed grass seed per acre, as ten pounds of timothy, twenty pounds of orchard grass, ten pounds of bluegrass and as much of tall meadow oat grass. Then give another bar- rowing. The plan followed will Boon make the land carry twenty sheep to the acre, or 200 for the twenty, all through the summer. We often read of the fine permanent pastures of England, which will fatten a 1500 pound ox to the acre in three months, and then finish another, and which retain their peren- nial verdure and freshness for centuries, and we have our fine Kentucky and other equally fine bluegrass meadows, on which the finest horses, sheep and cattle are reared and which have never been cut by the plow nor torn by the harrowB, and tbese are by no means works of nature only; they are equally works of art, and what they are others may be under the same conditions.—Pacific Homestead. Dwarf Animals. Arthur Wilson
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