800 Grasses and Leguminous Crops in jN'ew York 



or where tillage may not be practicable. Many poor rough pastures 

 can be improved by the persistent sowing of pasture grasses 

 spring after spring, while the ground is open with frost. In such 

 practice, only a small quantity of seed per acre should be used. 

 If one can not use so much, considerable can be done by sowing 

 f'our pounds of orchard grass per acre, two or three springs in 

 succession. Wet pastures and quite swampy areas can be improved 

 in the same way by sowing red top, about four pounds per acre. 

 Usually, however, better results can be obtained by sowing a suit- 

 able mixture than by sowing a single species. 



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Fig. G!){). — S^\^lET Clovek in Pasture. Cattle Like It and It Stands 

 Grazing Well. Does Well on Some Soils. Photo Taken in 

 Septemijer. 



GENERAL MANAGEMENT 



One way to kill weeds is to keep them from showing green 

 leaves. In fact, any plant — wild or cultivated — can be destroyed 

 If its leaves are persistently destroyed. Many pastures are so 

 managed that they show green leaves but a very short intei-val 

 at a time. They are grazed too early in the spring, too late in 

 the fall, and too continuously during the summer. If the per- 

 manent pasture area on each farm could be in two or three fields 

 rather than in one block, and the animals changed from field 

 to field regularly at intervals of ten days to three weeks, much 



