Show LI I V GJ II V MAKING 1 PROGRESS I WITH LIVE STOCK I First Essential Is First Class First Clover Pasture To make progress s In developing do n a balanced system of ot farming where live stock stoel Is to have ha a n rightful place placeIt It Is necessary to have a 11 area planted to class first pasture Almost nn land will any produce some pasture sa says s 's S J 3 Kirby FIrby pasture specialist at nt the North Carolina State college But nut the more fertile time the soil the better pasture It will pro pro- produce produce duce over Cut land Idle cleared land or land too rough or too steep for fol cleanly cultivated crops may be used Where the soil soli has beI I been well cultivated It amy may be ease easIly easily ily prepared b by disking or breaking brell and disking All crop residues should shuh I be plowed under and the seed bell bed left level le It Is Important to tl havea p hn a good goor seed bed for grass and clo do dorer reI plantings Mr Ir Kirby sn says s 's also that pasture to good treatment Lime and phosphate are arc beneficial to gras grasses cs and clovers and are necessary for Cor animals These may be to the live lire stock through grazIng Throughout the time Piedmont section Mr l Kirby advises the thc use of one ton of lime limestone tone and from Crom to 00 pounds pound of a u complete fertilizer such as II a 3 1 3 12 3 12 or a 11 l 12 t H Time The application of stable stahle or barnyard manure ns as a n tcp dresser resser time the second or third year after aftel aftertIme tIme the sod has Imas been established Is a good practice It is also practical to Improve old pastures at low cost Sometimes areas may be again tOIl tol dressings s with lime fertilizer antI anel may be necessary but In any case these treatments should be given given en so that time the plant food materIals might be Incorporated Into time the soil by the alternate thawing and freezing or of the ground |