MASSACHUSETTS 

 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STAl ION 



BULLETIN No. 300 OCTOBER, 1933 



Chemical Composition 



of Herbage from 

 Massachusetts Pastures 



By J. G. Archibald and E. Bennett 



There is some evidence that nutritional disorders in livestock may be 

 traceable to inadequacies in the natural source of feed. This investiga- 

 tion was undertaken in an attempt to determine the degree of variation 

 in the composition of the herbage of natural pastures as inPuenced by 

 differences in the composition and physical character of the soil. 



massac:husetts state college 

 amherst, mass. 



