Cut-Over Pine Lands in the South. 



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TEMPORARY PASTURES. 



Temporary pastures include winter-grazing crops or cover crops 

 and volunteer or unseeded crops on cultivated lands. Winter-graz- 

 ing crops consist of the small grains, such as oats and rye, and winter- 

 growing annual legumes, such as bur clover, crimson clover, and 

 vetch. The most important volunteer pasture crops are crab grass, 

 Mexican clover, and beggarweed. 



Winter oats of a rust-proof variety sown early in fall are used for 

 winter grazing. Oats can be grazed slightly in the fall and winter, 

 but as the oats are usually grown for the grain crop, heavy grazing is 

 questionable. (Farmers' Bulletin 436.) 



Fig. 9. — Cattle grazing Abruzzi rye in February on the beef-cattle experiment farm at 

 Collins, Miss. This pasture was grazed from the latter part of November until the 

 last of March. 



Hairy or sand vetch is frequently sown with oats for winter graz- 

 ing. The addition of vetch greatly increases the winter grazing and 

 the cattle may be removed in the spring and the oats and vetch cut for 

 hay. (Additional information concerning vetch in southern sec- 

 tions is contained in Farmers' Bulletins 515 and 529.) 



Rye, especially the Abruzzi variety, which was introduced by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture from Italy, has proved 

 to be far superior to oats for winter grazing. At Collins. Miss., in 

 the fall of 1917. Abruzzi rye and oats were sown the same day on 

 equal parts of a field and under exactly the same conditions. The 

 rye made good growth and furnished excellent grazing through 



