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climatic conditions only should be grown. The grasses 

 proper are considered better adapted relatively than 

 the clovers to furnish grazing for horses. Both are 

 very suitable for cattle and sheep, and, when grown 

 in combination, the danger from bloat is practically 

 eliminated. The latter are more suitable for swine. 

 Plants grown only for pasture, as rape, are most suit- 

 able for sheep. Those which furnish the most succu- 

 lence are best adapted for milk production, while not 

 too much succulence gives better results in growing- 

 meat. 



Grazing Temporary Pastures. — When grass pastures 

 are sown in the autumn they may be grazed the follow- 

 ing season, and in some instances southward the same 

 autumn. When sown in the spring, and especially 

 when sown with nurse crops, they should not be grazed 

 the same season. To this also there may be some ex- 

 ceptions, as when, for instance, the growth may be so 

 strong as to endanger the grasses through smothering 

 under snowfall. When the cereal grains are sown for 

 pasture, they should be pastured from the time they 

 will furnish plentiful grazing. Grasses and clovers 

 sown along with them, especially on porous soils, as 

 the black loams of the prairie, will be benefited by such 

 grazing through the firming of the soil, and the more 

 lacking the supply of moisture, the greater will be the 

 benefit. On some soils and in some sections autumn 

 sown cereals may be grazed during the winter w^ith 

 benefit to the crop. Winter wheat, for instance, is thus 

 frequently grazed in Kansas ; winter rye may be thus 

 grazed even further north. On rich prairie soils wheat 



