4 BULLETIN 397, ^,. s.|,:pE:^Aif:fpvi::^]srT of agkicultuee. 



Some graziers save fields b'f bltife^raLSs especially for winter grazing. 

 The consensus of opinion is that this winter grazing does no harm, 

 although many prefer to keep the stock off the pastures for a few 

 weeks when the grass is beginning to grow in the spring. 



Feeding hay or corn fodder on the poorest spots of a pasture is a 

 very effective means of improving the stand of grass. (Fig. 4.) An 

 objection often made to the use of a silo is that it necessitates the 



Fig. 3. — Fields too steep and rocky to be plowed, but which make excellent pastures. 



extra expense of saving and hauling manure to the pasture fields 

 when the quality of the sod is to be maintained. 



It has been shown by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station ^ 

 that fairly close grazing will keep a bluegrass sod in better condition 

 than light grazing. The latter practice allows the grass and weeds 

 an opportunity to seed. Cleaning up a field at the close of the grazing 

 period seems to have a similar effect. The trampling of the field by 



I Carrier, Lyman, and Oakley, R. A. 

 204, 18 p., 8 fig. 1914. 



The management of bluegrass pastures. Va. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 



