Show Average Daily Gain on Mixed Pasture Best Sweet clover pasture has lias earned n a place in the corn belt particularly In Indr dr dry seasons It lids huts been a big factor In Increasing milk production of d dairy cows For young oung animals however ho experiments at the University of Wisconsin Wis Wis- Wisconsin Wisconsin I with dairy heifers IndIcate that it ma may not be as valuable as mIxed pastures and blue grass pas pastures tures During four years ears experiments with three lots of five Dve heifers each ranging in age ago from one or two years show an average daily dally gain on the heifers on sweet clover of pound for mixed pasture time the dally daily gaIns were O i pound and for blue grass and red top mixture the daily dally gaIns were 11 pound Each acre of ot the sweet clover er pas pas- pasture pas pasture ture annually has supplied 15 da days s 's for one heifer helfer IGi da days s for the mixed rotation pasture and days for time the blue grass and red top mixture This experiment bears out the contention that good crop land may mar profitably be used for permanent pasture |