Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1869 — Pasturing Meadows. [ARTICLE]

Pasturing Meadows.

It is a bad tiling for- all meadows to feed, them after mowing, except that rare class where the vegetation is too rank to make good hay. It a field cuts fonr torts of hay to the acre, feeding a tew days might not harm it But for ordinary mowing land cutting only half as much, grazing cannot fail to reduce the next year’s crop, and to shorten the period during which the land can be kept in grass. We noticed this summer in an old meadow the great difference in the yield of hay inside of an old stock-yard, and uprtn the adjoining laud. The Circle where the fence had stood was very distinctly marked by the ranker growth of grass. Outside, tljere had been grazing. all through the fall. Inside, the fence bad protected the grass. Though* the outside had the droppings of

the cattle, yet the yield, ppon the inside was at least a third more, and there jwss no other noticeable rauae than the difference in praring. It ia true Hint by pursuing tins plan there is mare old fog upon ungraded land, but that is just'What the roots of grasses need for their winter protection. The ground does not freeze so de6p, and the grass starts earlier iu the spring and makes a larger crop of hay.— Airunean Agricntllurut.