Show Good Management Can Build Pastures Renovation Program Should Be Well Planned these before and after photos taken on the John farm near Watkins Watkin Minn show how good toll toil management methods can build productive high yielding pasture on undernourished fields Duct Duck brush and June grass Ifa were about all aU that would grow on the field feld In the upper photo Fleischer Flescher lem em says he got only one months month's grazing a year rear out of this pasture The lower field field shows what happens hap pens on such uth land when a renovation renova lion tion program Is fa s undertaken supported sup ported by the use of plenty of tern ter- er inker r d. d t A t p t f s fir 11 et Ch plowed plotted a aad this hl field I th fall As Aa soon it as tr frost t was out bf bt the it ground und l in n th the spring g ghe he seeded a Ii mixture containing m Uy brome and ana some Alta tescue with spreader He didn't ise seed seeds seed's d' d a mirse crop He Be added fertilizer at the rate of pounds per acre of bf 20 0 then followed with pounds of ammonium ammo ammo- nitrate The first firt year rear got cot two crops of brome browse The second year rear ho didn't need it because he be had 60 80 tons tOIa of hay in reserve Incase in incase incase case of trouble pastures pasture 33 head of dairy cows mostlY cows mostly Holsteins for formost formost most mOlt of the summer on this pasture |