CHAPTER XrX 



SUGGESTIONS FOR INSTRUCTION IN PASTURE MAN- 

 AGEMENT AND LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION 



Improved methods of handling pasture lands and foraging 

 animals have been somewhat widely adopted by stockmen in this 

 country during recent years. Although the stockmen them- 

 selves deserve much credit for this advancement, the leadership 

 in the discovery and appHcation of fundamental principles in this 

 field clearly devolves upon the college- trained investigators of 

 pasture problems. The agriculturalist who succeeds must be 

 trained in all the major lines of rural activities. Agricultural 

 colleges, including forest schools, are making serious efforts to 

 meet the new requirements. It is only recently, however, that 

 some of the colleges have undertaken to offer instruction in 

 pasture and livestock management. 



Probably no single agricultural activity exercises so profound 

 and immediate an influence upon our people as that of pasture 

 livestock production. In view of the importance of the subject 

 itself, as well as its relation to all other phases of agriculture, it 

 is surprising that thorough instruction in the management of 

 pasture and foraging animals has not long since been included in 

 the curricula of the leading agricultural colleges and especially 

 of forest schools. Forestry in this country is so closely connected 

 with forage production and livestock handhng that it is necessary 

 for the professional forester to understand the handhng of stock 

 on woodlands. Failure to include grazing courses in the curric- 

 ula of agricultural colleges, especially in the West, is no doubt 

 largely accounted for by two conditions — the rapid develop- 

 ment in recent years in the science of pasture and livestock 

 handling, and the lack of textbooks on the subject as a whole. 



In preparing a syllabus for grazing courses the author has aimed 

 to cover the field for two classes of men — first, the grazing 

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