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Show PIS! LET PASTURE GET START IN SPRING Mistake to Turn Cows on Grass Too Soon. Dairymen generally anxiously await the pasture season the "cheap production pro-duction season" when they can turn their cows on to grass. But they shouldn't be too anxious, suggests C. A. Smith, extension dairyman dairy-man for the Colorado Agricultural college, col-lege, in his monthly diary-herd-im-provement report. "Many cows are turned out before the grass has had a chance to get established, es-tablished, and before there Is much, feeding value to it," he says. "Pas-turing "Pas-turing too early Is costly ; it reduces the carrying capacity of the pasture for the entire season. "Dairymen who have good permanent per-manent pastures can well afford to hold the cows off until the grasses get well started," he adds. For those who do not have permanent per-manent pastures, the extension dairyman dairy-man points out that there are many crops that can be planted to supply juicy feed at low cost this spring anil summer. These include winter wheat or rye for early spring pasture, and sudan grass, to be planted after danger dan-ger of frost is past, for summer and fall pasture. |