CATTLE, HOW TO PASTURE, ETC. 
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j?owl Meadow Grass. 
This is another most valuable grass, considered especially so for hay, 
and to our mind quite valuable for pasturage, particularly for dairy stock. 
Like- prairie hay it is quite free from dust, and at the same time it possesses 
all the essential elements of nutrition in a high degree. In all new coun- 
tries the first dependence must be on the wild grasses. The real difficulty 
is, farmers do not undertake the cultivated grasses until forced to. If a 
trial of the important varieties here noticed shall lead to the testing of 
still other soils, the time will soon come when our farmers will wonder 
how they could have gone on so long without appreciating at their true 
value many varieties, that the aim and scope of this work precludes evea 
the mention, 
Time for Pasturing. 
It is important that cattle be not only fully fed but that they have their 
feed at regular intervals. Where stock are driven to and from pasture 
they should be turned on soon after daylight in the morning, end not taken 
out. until, sundown. It is especially necessary that they the gras3 
While yet. it is covered with dew. So, where stock are h.c*A, and fed in 
stablqg, the first feed should be given early in the morning, just what they 
will cat clean. This should bo supplied not less than three times a day; 
and at night, to insure full stomachs, some extra feed as meal, shorts, 
etc., should be added. 
Salt should be kept where the animals can get it at will. They will 
thus get enough for their wants, and just as they want it, and will eat less 
than where supplied at the stables, or out-of-doors, at irregular times. 
Irregular feeding of salt is one of the worst possible practices. Salt is a 
cathartic when given in large doses, and this danger should be avoided. 
In Winter, whether the animals arc kept in stables, in sheds, in feeding- 
yards or in 't'lle shelter of groves, the same regularity of feeding should 
be observed. Stock should also be graded, if possible, so there will bo 
no very strong and very weak ones together. And those of a given ago 
should be fed together. Where animals are fed in groves or in fields a 
much larger, and, in fact, more irregular drove, as to ago and strength, 
may he kept together, than under open sheds or in close feeding-yards. 
Feed early always, as soon after daylight as the animals can sec to feed, 
and let the last mess at night bo given so as to be well finished just before 
dark. When fed in stables the same rule should be observed. Early 
and late feeding of good fodder, and in such quantities biey will eat 
tolerably cleau, is what keeps growing animals going -iguc along. This 
