PASSING OF THE FEDERAL PASTURE 



recover its old fertility. It might easily be 

 put in condition to fatten four head of stock 

 to each head now grazing upon it. To 

 effect this, regulation is needed. Some 

 authority must be asserted over the pastures 

 to prevent their abuse, to make it for the 

 interest of occupants not to kill the goose 

 which lays the golden egg. An end must be 

 put to the blighting competition now 

 kept up. 



Regulation being established, pastures 

 can be used in rotation, a period of rest be- 

 ing given each, during which the grazing 

 and trampling of herds may cease, and 

 grasses have opportunity to scatter and 

 fructify their seeds. Barren places can be 

 artificially reseeded and induced to yield 

 herbage as of old. In localities better 

 grasses than ever grew there can be sown 

 and grown. 



Such a recuperative process has been set 

 going in other countries and in parts of our 

 own. Australia has suffered the pinch 

 through which we are now passing. Her 

 great live stock industry was dying out; her 



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