Pastukes in New Yokk 



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One qf the best and cheapest methods of pasture renovation 

 is that coinnionly called rotation. A very general practice is to 

 turn all the animals on all of the pasture land at once and before 

 it has obtained sufficiemt growth in the spring. The animals 

 proceed to devour every green blade, keeping all gi-owth down 

 except rank weeds. There is no- surer way known of killing- 

 plants, as without leaves they have no way of making starch. 





Fig. 6!16. — Typical Rougit Hillside Pastltre Infested With Thouxs and 

 Poplars. Full of " Cradle Knolls " Covered With Moss and Herb- 

 age Burned to a Crisp from Its Southwest Exposure. 



The simple and reasonable remedy is to divide the pasture area 

 into feed lots by suitable fences and allow the animals access to 

 one lot at a time for a period dependent on the land and the 

 season, giving each lot time to make sufReieint growth to perpetuate 

 itself. Results from this simple procedure have often been 

 marvelous, weed growth diminishing and desirable grasses reseed- 

 ing themselves, all for the cost of a little extra fencing and atten- 

 tion to nature. 



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