CHAPTER V. 
now TO PASTURE, PEED AND WATER. 
ABOUT PASTURAGE. CLOVERS THAT DO WELL. TTNDESTRARLE CLOVERS. ALFALFA. 
THE TRUE GRASSES. TIMOTHY, OR CAT’S TAIL GRASS. BLUE GRASS. RED 
TOP. ORCHARD GRASS. FOWL MEADOW GRASS. TIME FOR PASTURING. WA- 
TERING. .EEEDlNa STOCK CATTLE. HOW TO FEED. FEEDING MILCH COWS. 
About Pasturage. 
The subject of pasture and meadow is one of the most important with 
which the farmer has to deal. It makes feed in Summer and forage in 
Winter. Yet, in the United States, nearly all our meadows consist of 
one clover and one grass ; in other words, timothy and clover are our 
great meadow plants, and the addition of blue grass to this forms the 
bulk of our pasturage, always excepting, of course, the vast areas of wild 
grasses that still cover the great prairies and vast plains of the West, yet 
to be brought into cultivation by man. 
Until -within the last few years, or until the dairy interest began to 
assume such gigantic proportions, farmers got along well enough with 
these ; for, where stock raising for beef is the sole object, and wild 
grasses are plenty and grain easily raised, and consequently cheap, a very- 
few grasses will suffice ; but the impetus given to daiiying nothin the last 
few years, has fairly shown that the best results, nay, that even fair suc- 
cess cannot bo had with a few grasses. This the dairymen in New York 
State came to understand years ago, and yet so little was known of the 
adaptability of varieties to soils and climate, that our best farmers 
worked blindly in experimenting, and unfortunately, our botanists could 
do little more than furnish long strings of mere classical names of varie- 
ties as they were known in books, and could give almost no informatioa 
as to their adaptability. 
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