1 88 FORAGE CROPS. 



In a season of much growth, the sheep may feed 

 upon the pastures for a period considerably longer 

 than in a season opposite in character. 



Good Judgment Required. — Good judgment 

 must be used in thus pasturing off cereals. If the 

 pasturing is too long continued the grain will not 

 make sufficient growth. As the character of the 

 weather subsequent to the removal of the sheep can- 

 not be known beforehand, prudence would dictate 

 their removal at an early period. The pasturing of 

 cereals should probably not be attempted on land 

 where the danger of an excess of growth is not immi- 

 nent. Nor should sheep be used in thus pasturing 

 off cereals on clay lands when these are wet, however 

 strong the growth of the young cereals may be, as 

 the impaction of the land that would follow would 

 be more or less disastrous to the grain. 



