Permanent Grass 



to have a larger proportion of arable so as 

 to produce more winter keep. 



It is one of the most widespread fallacies 

 that permanent grass is essential to dairy 

 farming. Denmark, the greatest dairying 

 country, has hardly any grass. Modern 

 text-books on dairy farming point out that 

 a larger head of cows can be kept on an 

 arable farm, properly cropped, than on a 

 grass farm of the same size, thus yielding a 

 larger profit to the farmer. British agricul- 

 turists, however, have not fully realized this 

 fact. 



B. Stock. 



The head of stock kept to the lOO acres 

 is not at all as high as it might be. Statis- 

 tics show a lower head of stock per loo 

 acres in the United Kingdom than in other 

 European countries which possess less grass. 

 The reason for this is that even on their 

 large farms the cultivation is more intensive 

 than in England, more fodder crops are 

 grown, and these properly cultivated yield 

 more per acre than permanent grass, which 

 enables more stock to be summered. With 



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