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but will produce a vast growth of leaves, which 

 stock eat with a relish. These temporary pastures 

 may also be grazed the following winter and some- 

 times they produce a crop the next spring. The 

 difficulty unsurmounted in this temporary pasture 

 proposition is that there is frequently a temptation 

 to keep the stock on when the ground is too wet, 

 thus seriously injuring the mechanical condition of 

 the soil. 



