Show Old Dairyland Pastures I Can Be Easily Improved Some old seeding of dryland pastures will respond to mechanical cal treatments and save complete plowing say research workers In agronomy In recent tests treatments Included In eluded ripping pastures at 5 S and Inch 8 depths on a Inch 20 interval interval inter Inter- val plowing grass Into rows about 42 Inches apart and disking Research Research Re search workers also allo seeded alfalfa and sweet wed clover Into a series serle of ot plots plowed into Inch 42 rows row Results Result showed that western wheat wheatgrass crall production would increase increase in in- crease slightly sightly after the disking treatment After Alter other treatments treatment production of ot western wheatgrass declined Plowing Dr into rows row and aDd seeding legumes increased forage torae yields and except for tor rows row seeded with sweet clover one would expect treatments Involving treatments involving legume seeding seed ned ing lag to outfield mechanical treatments treat meats ments 19 18 times out of or 20 Grasses Grasse plowed into 42 Inch 42 inch rows and seeded with alfalfa produced produced pro pro- 83 per cent more than the untreated area This treatment appeared ap op to be the best way of ot increasing Increasing increasing in in- creasing yield of ot seeded pastures In low productivity I |