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GOOD 
PASTURE 
Makes low-cost feed, providing im- 
portant minerals, vitamins, proteins 
and carbohydrates. 
Properly managed, good pasture is the 
least expensive source of good dairy feed. 
Every acre should produce maximum 
grazing. The high-quality pasture seed 
here listed will provide the foundation for 
clean, heavy-producing pastures . . . help 
increase milk checks, livestock weight and 
poultry profits. 
LADINO CLOVER 
A vigorous leafy perennial clover, spreads 
by runners. Ladino, sown with various 
grasses, often supplements or replaces for- 
mer pasture areas. Makes fine grazing for 
dairy cows . . . also hogs, sheep, poultry. 
One pound is the usual amount of Ladino 
seed used per acre. Note these two types: 
‘CERTIFIED’? LADINO 
This offering is of the regular-strain Ladino 
so popular through the east and northeast 
these many years. Splendid quality seed— 
and at very much lower cost than before. 
‘‘PILGRIM”’ LADINO 
Offered for the first time. Trials have been 
in progress for sometime while this strain 
carried only the number 23608. Folks at 
Penn State Station feel favorable to this 
strain. It has shown to be a good producer, 
and with good care, bids to provide longer 
use than have regular commercial Ladinos. 
Costs a premium . . . but still lower priced 
than regular-strains during recent years. 
HIGH-PRODUCTION PASTURE , 
Authorities feel that some Ladino should 
be in EVERY pasture. Orchard Grass (4 
to 7 pounds) is popular with Ladino. If 
kept down early, remains palatable and 
grows during hot, dry months. Along with 
1 pound Ladino, 2 or 3 pounds Alsike 
helps thicken stands the first year. Where 
alfalfa does well, add 5 or 6 pounds; 
where unreliable, 3 or 4 pounds Red 
Clover. Tall Meadow Oat, 6 to 8 pounds 
per acre, may be _ palatable—does not 
stand grazing as well. Brome, 8 to 10 
pounds per acre, is good, yet slower to re- 
cover atter grazing, and Ladino may get 
ahead of it. Meadow Fescue was used suc- 
cessfully on moist, fertile soils. Eight 
pounds Reed Canary is sometimes put 
where too wet for other grasses. Four to 5 
pounds Timothy may be used, but makes 
little growth in dry weather. 
TRIPLE-PURPOSE LADINO MIXTURES 
FOR HAY, PASTURE, GRASS SILAGE 
A good basic formula is 4 pounds Timothy 
with winter grain, and 4 pounds each of 
Orchard Grass, Meadow Fescue, Red 
Clover, with 1 pound Ladino in the spring. 
On poorer, wet soil, 3 pounds Alsike can 
be added. On fertile, well-drained soil, 5 
pounds. Alfalfa. 
LADINO IN ORCHARDS 
As an orchard cover crop, one advantage 
is its shallow root system .. . does not rob 
trees of dry-weather moisture. 
LADINO TO REPLENISH OLD STANDS 
Ladino and suitable grasses do a good job 
of “pasture renovation” where poor, thin 
sods are disced thoroughly and reseeded 
after adequate liming and _ fertilization. 
Ladino and grasses can be introduced into 
thin Alfalfa stands, without plowing, by 
harrowing and seeding in spring, or after 
cutting. 
