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words, this land is too valuable to be used extensively for pasture. 

 Or, stated differently, pasture crops do not, as a rule, produce 

 enough forage to pay a reasonable return on this sort of land. 



By pursuing a systematic crop rotation in which the hay crops 

 are wholly or almost exclusively legumes, such as red clover, cow- 

 peas and alfalfa, and by being particular not to run the land in 

 corn or small grains too frequently, and especially by being care- 

 ful to feed all the corn and forage on the farm instead of selling a 

 part of it each year, and by carefully saving and applying with a 

 manure spreader all of the manure produced, the productiveness of 

 this class of land may be kept up without laying down large areas 

 to permanent pasture. 



Fig. 3. A profitable type of early-maturing cattle. 



On lands not of the very strongest type this system of farm- 

 ing may be slightly modified, by giving especial attention to the 

 production of legume hays and buying onto the farm a portion at 

 least of the corn to be fed with these hays. On a still lighter class 

 of soils this latter plan might be modified still further, by making 

 a part of the grain purchased some concentrate rich in nitrogen 

 and phosphorus, like cottonseed meal or linseed meal. 



It goes without saying that crops that exhaust the soil and 

 possess at the same time a comparatively low feeding value, like 

 timothy, millet and sorghum, would have no place in this system 

 of farming or feeding. They deserve a very small and unimportant 

 place in any system of farming that is adapted to Missouri condi- 

 tions. 



