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larger nonreserved portion. In actual practice it is found ad- 

 vantageous to reserve a portion of the pasture for fall grazing, 

 as it insures ample feed when the average pasture would other- 

 wise be somewhat closely cropped. 



Another advantage of deferred grazing is that the planting of 

 the seed insures satisfactory reproduction (Fig. 24). On areas 

 where the deferred-grazing system is applied, seedlings, and later 



Fig. 24. — deferred CROPPING VLl^L^ VLAKLOxXL. GR.^L\G. 

 On the left is shown a bunchgrass pasture where deferred grazing has been strictly applied for three 

 successive years, on the right an area where season -long grazing has been the practice. The 

 vegetation to the left is almost entirely palatable and consists of the best plants of the region. 

 Much of the area to the right is barren or contains poisonous or unpalatable plants. 



well-established plants of all species adapted to the area, are 

 found. Not infrequently the stand more than doubles in a single 

 season. Grazing, even late in the autumn, however, thins the 

 young seedling stand; but the damage is seldom serious and is 

 usually insignificant as compared with the damage done on lands 

 grazed early in the season. Moreover, the loss of seedlings from 



