Show I QUICK PASTURES FOR SHEEP Rye Wheat Barley Oats etc Are All Excellent Excellent Cowpea Cowpea Is Favorite Among Legumes For a u quick-growing quick sheep pasture some of the grain plants are excellent n Rye e wheat barley oats etc are nil used Some of the peas and ami other r legumes are arc often used the common cowpea being a general favorite for this purpose Sorghums are a big heli when sown in the spring to furnish sheep pasture during the dry deather of midsummer when the meadow grasses are brown and the bluegrass is apparently dead There Is a great list of grasses that ma may be used In establishing a temporary temporary tempo tempo- sheep pasture When a n. pasture is needed in a n short time It Is necessary to pick a n grass that will establish it itself itself it it- self at once and begin for- for age Ilze Timoth Timothy is Is fairly satisfactory and so are all the clovers Take timothy and red clover as a co combination to tobe tobe tobe be sown early in the spring with a nurse crop of oats and you have a n mixture that Is hard bard to beat leat sown In the corn cornwill will make a fine late pasture for sheep and lambs Alfalfa has been recommended as a sheep pasture It has points In Its favor but these arc are more than offset offset off off- set b by its disadvantages It will grow quickly and amI furnish a vast amount of grazing razing but unless it Is well mixed with other grasses Its value is doubtful doubtful doubt doubt- ful for this reason Teason It Is likely to I cause bloating This with the harm to the tile alfalfa that will be caused by bythe bythe bythe the characteristic ch clise se grazing of the sheep makes it a n poor plant for a sheep pasture |