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Show Bolster Pasture With More Crops If Supplement Is Provided Live Stock Will Not Suffer for Feed. Rlue grass Is the main constituent of our best pastures and make h!:mm-dant h!:mm-dant growth during spring and early summer, and again In the fall months, but there 19 usaally a period durinc the summer when little growth Is made. The capacity of the pasture during that period of the year Is apt to be rather uncertuln. particularly in a dry year. Supplemental Crop Helps. H. R- Cox, farm crops specialist at the New Jersey State College of Agriculture, Agri-culture, suggests that If a supplement to the pasture Is provided durlns part of the summer, the stock wMl not suffer suf-fer from lack of feed, and the pasture pas-ture will not be Injured by graln too closely. This supplement may be of various kinds. Sometimes additional addition-al grass pasture may be rented. With gome farmers It may take I he form of providing for temjorury pastures or oslng soiling crops, or even by the use of silage. Hay land may be pastured after mowing. Grain stubble Is sometimes pastured but the cows do not get much besides ragweed. In ease of necessity, some of the first rutting of grass nud clover may be grazed. A few farmers in New Jersey pasture the second rutting of alfalfa after i Is well along. TI1I9 Is not particularly good for alfalfa, but It Is not os hard on the crop ns pasturing durlug the entire season. Of the crops tlmt nre sown for temporary pasture, there Is nothing that will beat sweet Hover where the soil conditions are right for Using Method of Soiling. . A few farmers meet the shortage of pasture by using the method of soiling, that Is. cutting green crops for the cows. Corn, clover, and grass may be used In this way; or certain crops may be planted specifically fr this purpose, such as oats i.nd peas In early spring, and soy beans In late spring. Soiling Involves considerable consid-erable lnbor. however, and It It- usual ly cheaper lo lei the cows gather their . own roughage |