PASTURE FOR STOCK.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3607, 7 December 1905, Page 4

PASTURE FOR STOCK.

|i«ht Months In the Year of Food Is fuyo to Produce Goo d SMnita with Feedew.

If the stock is kept in the best health and thrift through what may be termed the growing season, more or lews pasturage will be found advantageous. But in making the most out of the pastures it will he found best to divide Mto at least two pastures and in matny cases - three will be still better. Oiie should he convenient to the barn and should be reserved especially for theteam a With cattle and sheep, and horses and bogs, not only is a change of pasturage beneficial, but the pasture will be eaten down mulch more evenly. When all stock pasture together in one field there seems to be a natural inclination to keep a part of the grass eaten down close while a part of the grass will be allowed to grow up and mature seed. But where the stock are changed from one pasture to another every two or threenveeks all of the grass will be eaten \lown more evenly and there will be much less waste, Tc provide the necessary pasturage it should be arranged for in good season so that after grass starts up in the spring they can be ready for use when needed. While it is an item to have plenty of good pasture at the same time it is not advisable to have so much in such shape that more or leas would be wasted. Pasturing cattle on grasses nearly eight months in the year is the cheapest way to raise good feeders, and there should be no waste.—Dakota Field and Farm.