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Massachusetts 

 agricultural experiment station • 



Bulletin No. 281 April, 1932 



Experiments with Permanent 

 Pastures 



By A. B. Beaumont 



A large proportion of the farm land of Massachusetts consists of stony 

 uplands more suitable for permanent pastures than for tilled crops. 

 The improvement of pastures by top-dressing with fertilizers offers 

 attractive possibilities. Although there are certain discouraging condi- 

 tions attending it, the goal is worth the effort; for the fact that large 

 areas have already reverted to forest shows what must happen to exist- 

 ing pastures if fertilizer is not applied, or if the price of milk is too low 

 to make such application profitable. A pasture which is weedy or run- 

 down because of a lack of plant food can be brought back to productive 

 condition only by the use of plant food. 



MASSACHUSETTS STATE COLLEGE 

 AMHERST, MASS. 



