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Pasture fills the milk pails. Good pastures, prop- 
erly managed, can be the source of the cheapest 
dairy feed. Why not make yours so? 
The continued shortage of good legume seeds, 
plus the urgent need for good pasturage, makes 
these pages important. Besides descriptions of 
good grasses are suggestions to help you get the 
most out of your pastures in milk-checks and 
livestock weight. .. . Study this information—it 
may save you dollars of seed cost and earn you 
many other dollars. Don't expect results without 
high-quality seeds. You can depend on Hoffman 
Seeds being clean and of full vigor. 
“TO FRESHEN UP OLD PASTURE” 
Sow 10 pounds rye grass and 2 pounds Ladino 
clover per acre. First lime and fertilize. Then 
broadcast on top, or better still, seed with a disc 
drill. Follow with cultipacker in either case. 
(Not for new pasture, or if old stand is completely 
gone. Not balanced for a good stand alone.) 
“RED TOP”” (HERD’S GRASS) 
A very useful, medium height perennial grass, 
with a creeping habit of growth. Four main uses 
—(1) as wet or sour land crop, (2) for pasture 
mixtures under humid conditions, especially on 
soils other than limestone, (3) as soil binder to 
combat erosion, (4) for hay mixtures. Grows on 
lime-starved soils that won't support other 
grasses. Vigorous, drought-resisting, it makes a 
coarse, loose turf. Matures with timothy. 
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Well-Managed Pasture 
One important thing is to get cows 
in there early and keep that grass 
down to less than 4-inch average. 
Soon as the grass gets too high 
too quick and too early in the 
spring, the cows can’t handle it. 
Gets tall and pokes them in the 
eyes and they wander around tak- 
ing a bite here and there. While 
it is low and thick, they go slowly 
and progressively move their heads 
from side to side and take it all as 
it comes. 
Applying manure in the middle 
of the winter when the ground is 
frozen is a very good way to get 
this pasture to perk up quickly in 
the spring. 
Cutworm Poison Bait 
Twenty pounds or so per acre. 
Scatter late afternoon or evening. 
Mix about 5 pounds bran with %4- 
pound Paris green. Dilute about a 
pint cheap molasses with a pint of 
water. Then mix all together. Add 
enough more water to make mix- 
ture crumbly moist. 
This poison-bran bait is also ef- 
fective against fall army worms. 
Lots of Water for Cows 
Clean, fresh water should be avail- 
able when they desire it. Large, 
good-producing cow may consume 
150 to 300 pounds of water ‘daily 
. . . her consumption going up as 
the temperature advances. Shade 
Is another requirement for summer 
cow pastures. 
