GEAZIlsrG INDUSTEY OF THE BLUEGEASS EEGION. 9 



VALUE OF A PASTURE WHEN GRAZED WITH CATTLE. 



The grazing on most farms is so intimately connected with other 

 farm operations that it is extremely difficult to separate the returns 

 and say just how much should be credited to .the pasture fields. It has 



Fig. 8. — A field of grass which is being kept for winter grazing. 



been the custom in most farm-economic studies to assign an arbitrary 

 value to the pastures, based on the prevailing prices paid for pasturing 

 stock by the month. There are many fields in the bluegrass region 



Fig. 9. — A pasture on cleared woodland. All trees should be cut or deadened and the brush cut 



and burned. 



which are grazed by approximately the same number of cattle every 

 year. As these cattle are purchased one fall by weight and sold the 

 next fall in the same manner, it is possible to get definite figures as to 

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