GRAZING INDUSTRY OF THE BLUEGRASS REGION. 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 pastur.es, 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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