CARE OF (iKASS LANDS. or,^ 



which is ll.n host t.Ho of th. l,uMl. On dry lands subjc.^r, to Uv.. 

 qi.....i and Kcvcn. .Iron-l.ts, tl,„ grass soon runs <„,(,. AfU,r 

 n.s,,cMling, ti.ey give a gr^al n-op tin, first your, less the next, und 

 f^n-udiially tlu, clover and Tiniotliy die out. 



^\v an, infonned that the hcsL i.ast.ir..s in Knghind along th(, 

 b;in]<s .d' the Axe, Iho J'.rne, and the Parnd, r.nt annually {ov 

 five lo eight ponn.ls sterling per a<-re, or about twenty-five to 

 forty dollars. In on(, instance, X-:{,000 was offrred for ]0 acres 

 of such pasture land and refused. Such i.astures are green in 

 the si.ring when everything els.- is brown, and they grow (.n into 

 late autumn when jther pastures have ceased to support stock. 

 They supply food forani-i.-h huiger period than inf.'rior pastures, 

 and save a couple of month's winter k(,ep. 



In Holland an a.:n, of p(u-mam,'nt pasture is said to carry one 

 cow and a sheep. In Herkimer county, Xew York, rich perma- 

 nent i)astures carry one cow to each acre aiul a half, wliile in 

 much of Xew England, Professor Sfoekbridge says, " Kight acres 

 are rc^piiird for one cow, and then she comes home at night 

 looking disap])ointe(l."' 



.Secretary AV. T. Chamberlain, of Ohio, in the (kmntry (Iculh- 

 vi(i„, says: " Our pastures are not so j.roduetiveas wesuppose. A 

 fine old pasture of three years standing, when mowed in a good 

 season, yielded less than a ton to the acre, a.ul in one season^'less 

 than half a ton i)er acre, ^i'he grass was short June grass, red- 

 to]), red clover, white clover, and some Timothy. Tiie Liml is 

 capable of better thijigs. Xext to it is a field, no better hmd, 

 from which I have twii^e within 10 years taken over three tons 

 per acre of (,ured hay. Kot even tile draining and top dressing 

 will restore such old pastures and meadows. A rich ten-acro 

 fndd of good, newly seeded i.asturo will 'carry ' more cows than 

 forty acres of old pasture." 



The seeding down to good, i)ernianent i)asture, even under the 

 most favorable conditions, is a sh.w and costly process. As wo 



