Show SOIL CONSERVATION By Justin Smith Our frost free growing season lias long since Bui there are places where grass is still and when the day gets it makes a little more food from the The growing euson of pastures in longer than the growing of grain or Carl at Ruby's Inn on one end of Johns and Clarence Just north or at the other end oi John's are both taking advantage ol the longer growing afforded by grass by har vesting nearly all their fields by pasturing The Soil Conservation Service likes Where there are Irrigated pastures or there is no and the ground Is protected all winter Actually the soil in a pasture is building Clyde of told nie that nothing but grass will grow in the raw sand have Hut after grass has been growing upon it for a few it can be plowed up and used to raise any Any slope that grass will grow there It will hold the with not having to worry about the grass farmer doesn't need very much work on his land to prepare it for a Usually smoothing with a drag or farrow is although some fields have been smoothed to uniform slopes by making big cuts and By putting In plenty of ditches close enough together and curved around the natural shape of the land so they are nearly u system of flood irrigation that Is relatively efficient can be worked To permanently save the an irrigated pasture must he Otherwise the rancher may decide to use his water on a. more profitable And even though it is not plowed the erase Is left without water to And the soil is exposed to erosion from To make a pasture we can plant good quality grasses and clovers or But one man when his new pasture was dying after a season of continuous hard grasses are no They won't stand Only bluegrass and white Dutch clover will stand continuous grazing and But they don't produce nearly as much feed as the taller growing after a week or the cattle are moved onto a fresh the good quality plants will have a chance to And the experiment stations report that steers can put on two or three times aa many pounds of beef from each Grass can be while It saves the |