Show L I 1 it C of MAKING PROGRESS WITH LIVE STOCK first essential lIs Is first class clover pasture to make progress in developing a balanced system of farming arming where live stock Is to have a rightful place it Is necessary to have a u area planted to first class pasture almost any land will produce some pasture says S J kirby pasture specialist list at the north C carolina arolina state stale college but the more fertile the soil the better pasture it will produce cut over land idle adle cieu cleared red land or land too tough rough or too steep i for cleanly cultivated drops crops may be profitably used where the soil hay has been well cultivated it may be easily prepared by disking or bri breaking aking and disking all crop residues should be plowed under and the seedbed seed bed left level it Is important to have a good seed bed for grass and clover plantings mr kirby says also that pasture responds to good treatment lime and phosphate are beneficial to grasses and clovers and are rec necessary essary for animals these may he bo supplied to the live stock through grazing throughout the piedmont section sir air kirby advises advise the use of one ton of of limestone and from to pounds of it a complete fertilizer such as a 1233 12 3 3 or a 1244 12 4 4 the application of stable or barnyard manure As as a top dres dresser ser the second or third year after the sod has been established jo e a good practice it Is also practical to improve old pastures at low cost sometimes these areas may be re seeded again top dressings with lime ilme fertilizer and manure may be necessary but in any case these treatments should be given so that the plant plaint food materials might be incorporated into the soil by the alternate thawing and freezing of the ground |