
It costs three or four times as much to feed a milk cow in the barn as to feed her on a good pasture, 1 
will replace during the pasture season all the hay and silage and much of the grain in the dairy ratio 

abundance of good pasture will not only be more profitable, but will conserve vitally needed grain. AS 
pasture also protects and builds up the soil. 
The vitamin A content of milk can be maintained at a high level by pasture feeding. 
Hay Dry Enough to Bale If Ready 
To Be Stacked 
Contrary to common belief of farmers, hay that is ready 
to go into the mow or stack may be baled in the field 
without excessive danger of spoilage. © 
The results of studies indicate that hay with a moisture 
content of 25 per cent or less may be baled in the field in 
16-by-18-inch bales containing not more than eight 
pounds per cubic foot without danger of spoilage if 
stored immediately. Bales 36 inches long of this size 
weigh 45 to 50 pounds and are rather loosely compressed. 
Farmers are accustomed to judging this moisture content, 
as it is the condition at which they commonly store 
loose hay, and usually can do it fairly accurately. 
GRASS MIXTURES TO 
POUNDS OF EACH KIND 
Hay with a moisture content of about 28 per cent had 
a tendency to discolor and become dusty in the bales. 
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Better Cattle Feed 
It is possible to disk up permanent pasture to work in 
lime and phosphate and make a seed bed for legumes 
without destroying the grass stand. 
Blue grass cut up with a disk soon has proved thicker 
and more vigorous than that which had not been worked. 
On treated ground it grew rank and leafy, was dark 
green in color and soon smothered out weeds. The 
treatment was still effective after 4 years and was 4 
times as productive as an untreated acre. 
MEET SPECIFIC NEEDS 
OF SEED FOR EACH ACRE 



















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To improve old pasture....| 10 2 Lime and fertilize. Broadcast or seed with 
disc drill, follow with Culti-Packer. Do not 
use for new pasture—not properly balanced. 
Poultry Green Feed........ 10 2 6 4 2 1 Sow late summer, like alfalfa. Needs frequent 
clipping. Normal stand will carry 500-700 
pullets. 
First-year Pasture......... 2 4 4 2 5-8 Sow early in spring with disc drill, follow 
with spike tooth harrow. 
Triple Purpose Pasture..... 1 5 *4 4 4 For Hay, Pasture or Grass Silage. Sow this 
oa on crop land for a rich stand. 
Add for poor, wet soil...... 3 
Add for fertile, well drained 5 
Add for sowing without *Plant Timothy in fall, with winter grain. 
grain nurse crop.........| 5 
Add for more than 3-year 
stand, as straight pasture 6 1 
High Production Pasture..| 5 3 9 9 4 Exceptionally nutritious and long lasting. 
Best for high production from limited areas. 
Add Alfalfa for Pasturing. . 2 8 Get several more years’ value out of old dis- 
used alfalfa stands. 
Turkey grain feed..........| 10 2 Turkeys thrive on this mixture. 
2-year hay followed by Suitable for pasture following two hay crops. 
pasturage.c)-3 geeks se 4 2 4 1 5 6 
Hay from heavy, damp soils 4 4 For that wet spot in your hay field. 
Basic Permanent Pasture Very good general purpose mixture. 
Mixtures si accu see 8 1 1 2 4 
Add for low, moist places. . 2 2 
Add, for good average 
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Add, for poor, dry 
conditions: ;;e-heacer ace 2 2 2 to 5 pounds Orchard Grass is optional in 
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With automatic mixers, Hoffman can properly mix any of the above, or your own formula, to provide uniform distribution. 
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