Show Crop Pasture for Sheep Favored at Beltsville Forage crops Instead of ot permanent grass ass pasture for sheep have given Iven good results on the thc Department ot of Agriculture experiment farm at Maryland The sheep were started oft off on tall fall sown fall sown wheat rye and winter barley Next they grazed oats and Canadian field peas sown In mixture then soy soybeans soybeans soybeans beans and utter after that corn and velvet I beans when sown fall-sown grain was wasI I again in This schedule pro pro- provided provided vided an nn unbroken supply of ot feed And Aud the sheep did very well One important point Is that they were little troubled by stomach worms and ond other Internal parasites pests parasites which stunt and wen weaken ken a n flock and andare andare andare are the bane of a sheep mans man's life when permanent pastures are used These results also should Interest farmers who are trying to mix live lI livestock livestock stock with their wheat farming Grass cannot well be got goi back onto the soils of ot semi-arid semi regions But by adding such f forage r Je crops as os sudan grass rass and perhaps sweet clover to the grazing razing furnished by wheat an al year year car feed program for sheep could be worked out Doctor McCampbell stock live at the Kan Kansas ns Agricultural college sas sa's says so and und believes that a ar areal areal r real al o opportunity exists therein for wheat heat farmers |