FA R M TOPICS epics DAIRYMEN ADVISED ON PASTURE CARE i fertilization Is regarded as the best plan by carl B bender professor of 0 dairy husbandry new jersey college ot of agriculture service if the old myth that cows talk at midnight on new years eve were true many a cow would have advised her owner long ago that pasture should be considered a cash crop most farmers farmer s do not consider pasture as a cash crop since they never actually see any money being returned directly from the pasture but the cow Is the middleman in this case it Is because ot of this lack of understanding on the part ot of dairymen that pasture lands are the most neglected sources of farm revenue A complete pasture fertilization program which includes an application of nitrogen fertilization at the rate of to pounds per acre in the spring brings returns in cash four to six weeks after the fertilizer is applied to the soil experimental I 1 work has been tried out on a demonstration basis th the e results have been uniformly good more dairymen should make plans this spring to treat their pastures the same as they t treat reat their other farm crops and thereby get more and cheaper milk from their dairy cows