. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Cat-Over Pine Lands in the South. 37 winter feed. The cattle are held on the native pastures until the pastures give out and are then put on velvet-bean fields to hold them until grass comes in the spring. After the corn is harvested the beans are usually partly picked if the cattle are to be carried through the winter on a maintenance ration, but if cattle are to be fattened they are turned on fields from which no beans have been picked. The leaves remain on the vines for a considerable time and are eaten better by ca
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Cat-Over Pine Lands in the South. 37 winter feed. The cattle are held on the native pastures until the pastures give out and are then put on velvet-bean fields to hold them until grass comes in the spring. After the corn is harvested the beans are usually partly picked if the cattle are to be carried through the winter on a maintenance ration, but if cattle are to be fattened they are turned on fields from which no beans have been picked. The leaves remain on the vines for a considerable time and are eaten better by cattle after frost comes. The. beans remain in the field about three months during the winter without shattering or damage from rains. In fact, after they have been softened by rains the cattle like them better. Beans which are trampled to the ground are utilized by following the cat- tle with'hogs. The carrying capacity of the pasture varies con- siderably according to the yield of beans per acre, but it is usual. Fig. 10.—Corn and velvet beans. Velvet beans make an excellent growth along with the corn. to allow from one-third to one-half an acre per head per month. It requires from 1 to 1^ acres to carry a cow through the winter. At Collins 56 head of mature breeding cows and 22 head of mature native steers were turned on 40 acres of velvet-bean pasture Decem- ber 3, 1917. The pasture consisted of stalk fields from which the corn had been snapped and velvet beans left unpicked. Ten acres of this field would have yielded 1,000 pounds or more of picked beans per acre, but the beans on the remainder of the field were scattering. The average yield of the entire field was estimated at 500 pounds an acre. The pasture was practically exhausted at the end of a 28-day period and hogs were left to clean up the remaining beans. Pas-. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of t
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