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Show "Back to Grass" Means the Forage Crops Also "Back to grass," now the objective objec-tive of farmers for millions of cultivated cul-tivated acres ip the United States, needs a little explanation, according accord-ing to crop specialists in the United States Department of Agriculture. Grass In this sense means legumes as well, and these are In most cases forage crops. Grass, to the average person, connotes con-notes only plants. In which the leaves are narrow and spear-shaped blades. When speaking of pasture land farmers usually refer to land In grass sod year after year. In the West they mean the native grasses. "Back to grass" means more grasses and legumes In semipermanent semiperma-nent pastures and hay land, or In crop rotation of two to five years. It means In many cases using better soil for pastures. "Only pasture-land" pasture-land" Is a phrase common In the Middle West especially, when referring re-ferring to land too poor and too rough for plow land. i Grasses and legumes grown on soils as good as those used for grain , crops, say the department specialists, special-ists, ofteij will' return greater net profit tj.the live stock farmer than grains o similar soil. |