The Ohio farmer . BEEF STEERS ON BLUEGRASS PASTURE—IOWA AGRICULTURAL DAIRY HERD ON BLUEGRASS PASTURE—IOWA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. grass produces a high quality of boneand a highly flavored flesh. Carefullyconducted experiments show thatcheaper gains by far can be obtainedfrom permanent pastures than from pounds per day gain is consideredgood, as a rule, and at the present priceof feed will cost from 8 to 10 centsper pound and ordinarily a higher fin-ish and a better price will be secured from the pasture, than from the win-ter-fed stock. Producing pork or babybeef profitably without pa
The Ohio farmer . BEEF STEERS ON BLUEGRASS PASTURE—IOWA AGRICULTURAL DAIRY HERD ON BLUEGRASS PASTURE—IOWA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. grass produces a high quality of boneand a highly flavored flesh. Carefullyconducted experiments show thatcheaper gains by far can be obtainedfrom permanent pastures than from pounds per day gain is consideredgood, as a rule, and at the present priceof feed will cost from 8 to 10 centsper pound and ordinarily a higher fin-ish and a better price will be secured from the pasture, than from the win-ter-fed stock. Producing pork or babybeef profitably without pasture of somakind is next to impossible. As a satis-factory feed for all live stock blu^grass has few equals, be-ing highly nutritious,well-balanced, palatable,succulent, easily digest-ed and assimilated, allof which are necessaryin the successful feel-ing of live stock. Soils sufficiently fer-tile to produce goodgeneral crops are suita-ble for permanent pas-ture. Brome grass andorchard grass are adapt-ed to soils generally,while Kentucky blue-grass is more particularas t
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