CHAPTEE XV. 



TEMPORARY PASTURES. 



Pastures are of two kinds, temporary and perma- 

 nent. The former, sometimes called rotation pastures, 

 are grown to provide grazing for but a limited num- 

 ber of years; in some instances, for only one season 

 and seldom for more than three seasons. The second 

 are grown to furnish grazing for an indefinite num- 

 ber of years, usually for a long period and in some 

 instances, as in the case of range lands and lands that 

 are untillable, for all time. The term rotation pastures 

 is applied to the former because they form a part of 

 a regular or irregular rotation grown in conjunction 

 with grain and other crops. 



Temporary pastures are usually, but not always, 

 grown in some sort of alternation with crops grown 

 to provide hay or soiling food, but usually the former. 

 In nearly all instances, when hay is taken from these 

 crops, it is taken from the first crop. Sometimes the 

 crop is made into hay for two successive seasons and 

 then pastured for one or more years. In some in- 

 stances but one crop of hay is taken and one of pasture ; 

 in others several crops of both are taken. More com- 

 monly, however, hay is grown for two successive sea- 

 sons and the crop is then pastured for one or more 

 seasons. The hay crops are taken first because larger 



