4 BULLETIN 397, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGBICULTUBE. 
Some graziers save fields of bluegrass 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 l 
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 
1 Carrier, Lyman, and Oakley, R. A. The management of bluegrass pastures. Va. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 
204, 18 p., 8 fig. 1914. 
