DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



clover it could be made to bear a crop of good pasture between the stumps. Do not 

 turn the cows on to pasture in the spring until a good crop has grown. The growth 

 may be checked so that the field never recovers that season ; besides which, the 

 younger the growth the more watery it is. Fifty per cent, more pasture is obtain- 

 able by the system of~changing to another field when a pasture gets fairly well eaton 

 off to allow it a period of a few weeks to grow, unchecked by cropping and trampling. 

 etc. Big fields can be split up to good advantage. The following clovers and grasses 

 are given in order of nutritiousne-- 



Nutritive Ratio. 



Alfalfa 1 to 3.6 



White Dutch clover 1 to 3.9 



Alsike clover 1 to 4> 



Red clover 1 to 



Kentucky blue-grass 1 to 7.6 



Meadow-foxtail 1 to 



Italian rye-grass 1 to 9.4 



English rye 1 to 10.0 



Red-top grass 1 to 11.6 



Meadow-fescue grass 1 to 12.0 



Orchard-grass 1 to 12.0 



Tall oat-grass 1 to 14.0 



Timothy-grass 1 to 14.0 



A good pasture mixture which has proven satisfactory under fairly moist Coast 

 conditions is as follows : 



Red clover 4 Ib. per acre. 



White Dutch clover 



Alsike clover 



Kentucky blue-grass " 



English rye-grass - .. 



Italian rye-grass " .. 



Meadow-fescue grass 3 .. 



Meadow-foxtail - .. 



In drier climates it may be advisable to sow orchard-grass, tall oat-grass, and 

 brome-grass with alfalfa, although, of course, there is the danger of these less 

 nutritious grasses crowding out the alfalfa. It is often found best under dry 

 conditions to plant the alfalfa alone in rows and cultivate the first season until 

 the plants begin to fill up the rows. Orchard-grass grows in tufts. It is a good 

 pasture, but soon gets coarse and woody if not eaten young. It withstands drought 

 well. Brome-grass is hard to kill when once established and is looked upon as a 

 weed for that reason, but it produces well and is palatable to stock. 



Kentucky blue-grass is the most nutritious of the cultivated grasses. It is at 

 its best during the early part of the season, but does not withstand drought well. 

 The plants are too short for hay purposes. Red-top grass, along with alsike clover, 

 is very suitable for rich, wet bottom lands, being hardy and long-lived. Meadow- 

 foxtail is a very early grass, heading out at the Coast in April. 



The following mixtures have been recommended by the Pullman Experiment 

 Station, State of Washington : 



'cm Districts. 

 Lowlands 



Orchard-grass 4 Ib. per acre. 



Red-top grass 3 .. 



English rye-grass 4 .. 



Red clover :: 



Alsike . 3 



