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BETTER DAIRY FARMING 



content than corn. However, none of them are equal to corn in 

 terms of food value produced per acre. 



Pasture, Soilage, Roots and Other Succulent 

 Roughages 

 For two or three months of the year or even longer, dairy 

 animals depend primarily on pasture for their feed. When cows are 



Ayrshires at Pasture 

 Owned by Edgerstown Farm, Princeton, X. J. 



on pasture the dairyman gets his milk for the least trouble and ex- 

 pense for feed and thus it is very important that he maintain his 

 pastures in as good shape as possible. 



379. Improvement of pastures. — Most of the land used for 

 pasture is that which is either too wet, stony or hilly for cultiva- 

 tion, or too worn out to grow crops satisfactorily. A large propor- 

 tion falls into the latter class and thus the question of better 

 pastures is largely one of improvement of these poor lands. Most 



