Raising Sheep on Temporary Pastures. 7 
secured in 1919 for the first time on 1^ acres that had received an 
extra coatinof of manure. 
Two crops were grown in 1919 on each forage lot. In the lati- 
tude of southern Maryland three crops can be raised on one-third 
the area where the land is used in the manner described. 
CARRYING CAPACITY AND USE OF VARIOUS CROPS. 
The number of days of grazing from 1 acre of each crop in 1919 
was as follows, calculated on its pasture value for one mature ewe. 
Days. I Days. 
Rape 392 j Cowpeas 210 
Soy beans 319 | Alfalfa 882 
Oats and peas 319 I Barley 278 
Wheat 309 | Rye 180 
Pasturing on wheat and rye began at the same time, April 8. 
The wheat continued to be suitable for use until the first week in 
Fig. 2.— Lambs in alfalfa, Beltsvllle, Md., July 7, 1917. 
May. A second growth was grazed later by a bunch of yearling ewes. 
Rye is not relished by the sheep so much as wheat, and heads out 
more quickly. In this stage sheep do not eat either leaves or heads 
to the same extent that they eat wheat. 
Rye is especially valuable for winter grazing in the Southern 
States. In winter-wheat sections that crop is grazed in winter and 
part of the spring with great advantage to the animals and to the 
grain crop as well. 
Alfalfa was used in May and again, for ewes, in October. This 
crop does not fit well in a temporary pasture system on account of 
the likelihood, of larvae left on the ground at one grazing infecting 
sheep at a later grazing. Cutting one crop for hay before the second 
