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Show PLAN TO IMPROVE PASTURES If Allowed to Rest for Time and Rotated Growing Capacity Be Greatly Increased. In answering the query, "Is there any method by which native pastures can be Improved and bo made to carry more live stock," Prof. Alvln Keyser, agronomist of the Colorado Agricultural Agricul-tural college, makes the following reply: re-ply: It depends a little bit upon the kind of native grasses which constitute the pasturage. Pasturage composed mostly most-ly of Colorado bluestem can be very greatly improved by heavy Risking, or by breaking the sod In a very thin layer and rolling It flat. This gtass, treated In tie manner indicated, sprouts up from Xho roots and' for a year or two afterwards will produce a much heavier crop of fornge. Almost Al-most any native pasture can bo Improved Im-proved to some extent by Judicious handling of the live stock. If the pasture pas-ture is divided In some way, so that the stock can bo kept upon one portion por-tion and the other allowed to grow and reBt for a time and the portions rotated at suitable intervals, the growing capacity will be quite materially mate-rially increased. Another method which gives some promise of success is Feeding, in native pastures, of re-slFtant re-slFtant types of nifalfa. This seeding may bo done with a disk drill, usln;; live to elgl.t pounds of seed to the acre. Some few have materially Increased In-creased the forage in their pastures by such seeding, t'siiiilly the seeling seel-ing should be done during or Just prior to the season of most abundant rains. The seeding Is much more liable to bo successful If done with pastures where n careful system of resting and rotation is carried out as Indicated above. |
