June, 1940] 



Studies of Pastuee Management 



Table III. Amount of green feeding on pasture of 256 New Hampshire farms 



surveyed in 1935 



clover are used. Most of these may also be used for annual pasture, 

 or grass silage. 



Annual pasture was not separated from other green feeding. All 

 kinds of green feeding provided 13.7 days or 9.4 per cent of the total 

 pasture feeding period. 



Rowen Pasture 



There are two usual periods for pasturing rowen. The first is af- 

 ter haying, as soon as growth starts, and the second occurs usually in 

 late September and October. The earlier pasturing is usually on 

 fields to be plowed for cropping the next year. The October pastur- 

 ing is more generally on all hay land, is not as close as the earlier 

 grazing, and in Coos county particularly, accounts for a second sea- 

 sonal increase in milk production, which is not, however, as large as 

 the May-June increase. This second increase is smaller because 

 herbage is less nutritious after frosting and because the season of 

 freshening of the largest percentage of the herd is in the spring. 



The total of roAven pasturing by counties accounted for 13.2 days 

 or 9.1 per cent of the total pasture. 



Hay and Silage 



The lack of pasture or of green feed grown for pasture supple- 

 ment has to be made up by feeding hay, silage, and grain. Of the 

 total feed during the pasture season, hay provided the equivalent of 

 10.8 days of pasture or 7.4 per cent of the total, while silage provided 



