COVER OF RYE GRASS TO PREVENT 
AND PROVIDE AN EXCELLENT 
UNDER 
Valuable Extra Pasture 
Many folks are only beginning to recog- 
nize the pasture value of rye grass in stock 
feeding. After a good growth has been 
attained, pasturing will not hurt its cover 
crop value. Makes fine forage for pigs 
and other animals, but supplementary pro- 
tein must be supplied in the grain ration. 
In one test, pigs pastured on rye grass 
gained 1.14 pounds daily when full fed a 
12 per cent protein ration (corn, 87.5 
pounds; tankage, 6 pounds; soybean oil 
meal, 6 pounds; and salt, .5 pound). 
You'll Want the Best 
Hoffman Rye Grass is cleaned and _ re- 
cleaned, 99 per cent or better purity. 
Strongest growth. Finest on the market. 
Weeds don’t make desirable cover crops 
—sowing clean, vigorous Hoffman Rye 
Grass helps crowd them out. Cost is low 
. . . truly pays its way many times over. 
Soil Saving 
Here’s a fact that bobbed up recently in a Penn- 
sylvania Experimental Station test. Forty pounds 
of rye grass seed saved seven tons of good top- 
soil when it was used to start a cover crop in 
a corn field test. 
Pasture Yields 
Yield figures on a ‘dry matter’’ basis for differ- 
ent pasture mixtures in one test in New Jersey 
were as follows: orchard grass-ladino, 7,268 
pounds per acre; brome grass-ladino, 6,555 
pounds per acre; tall oat-ladino, 4,584 pounds 
per acre; and blue grass-white clover, 2,594 
pounds. 
Cover Crops 
Cover crops are not the complete solution to all 
organic matter or other soil problems, but neither 
is any other one thing. Their use where they fit 
is just one more link in the chain of good soil 
management. 
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