Show PASTURING MEADOWS an who it if a good 0 o do I 1 lave always pastured our meadows I 1 could and it has in every caad proved lint s I 1 leavo liall n mcadow iu a field where a portion of it was cultivated tiva ted and tharo alio llio would run out anil blau grass tako its in ft very short timo tho meadow pastured would continuo to yield a paying crop I 1 know a few men liero alio will no dioro allow stock to run on their meadows than on fields of growing corn ami alio samo is true of fields 0 wheat stubble sown to clover and timothy 1 havo very frequently biad fields of locatell loca teil alio as a s meadows fo that wo could bot p and every tsuio it lias been to my sorrow the grain left scattered over alio stubble and alio llio clover growing up invitations fur myriads of ground mico to spend their winter and played sad havoc with luy young gras tim same was true of my meadows when nil the after maUi was left and not pastured kofl tho mico cut roads all through th grass and fed on abo roots and burrowed in alio llio ground by the thousand ready to destroy crops in tho pring alien I 1 camo into po nession ot alid farm nearly ciet ago wa a meadow of sonic eighteen acres iu a field of about forty acoca tah field barring the meadow had acea in corn and then sown to wheat and ro alio meadow was cut in proper time and did bot yield oica seven tons of hay and that of very poor quality I 1 went through it a chort timo buforo cutting ami tho mici liall anilo road all through it and would nin in every direction they had cut a large quantity of tho grasa in short pieces I 1 cau attribute alio llio causo of tins to olie oli e alian allowing iho aftermath to grow unmolested for n few previous had it been eaten on iho mice would leavo found no protection in winter and would not havo congregated tharo to do isioro harm than tin froula aud winds of winter and tin yield would havo acca nearer thirty tons alian seven alio soil WAS not barren as was proved in alic succeeding chopa which corn and wheat better than iho average of alila coin I 1 havo often read in agricultural papers not to pasture meadows and stubble sown to young gnus but havo boino to alio conclusion alit more meadows arc injured by not being pastured alian by pasturing and ecru after pasture meadows und gm till convinced eliat I 1 am wrong I 1 like to cut my meadows early makes a alno place to turn lambs when birol weaned or a fresh bito for a cow tho old grass stubble will present stock from grazing too closely and all tho protection necessary for winter IF in american cultivator |