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Show HELPING OUT SHORT PASTURE IN SUMMER Stock Raisers Face Inconvenience Inconveni-ence and Stock Lor.s. There Is Only One Rsmcdy Where Vast Herds Are Kept and ThM Is to Practice System cf Deferred and Rotation Graz.ng (Prepared by the United Stales Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Slock i a users, especially in iht Southwest, often, tit this? season of the year, t'ace tiiiuch inconvenience j.d probable loss of euttJe through the tdi.age of pustules. In other .-ec-tinns. where smaller herds and an:is n re involved, the summer pasture situation situ-ation can be met in var:.-us vuy. ay specialists of the United S;uie i e-partinent e-partinent of Agriculture. Among the ways are the sowing of ca:eb crops for summer forage or retnpui ;ir$ pa- I tures. I'ut. wilh ranges runn m: b'to thousands of acres, with vasi herds grazing, there is only one remedy and that Is to put into practice a system of deferred ami roin'i.n laxiiii;. Such a ysteiii will necessitate the division of the range in in sepm ate pastures, keeping ihe cuttle nlT ot one pasture each year until ihe seeds of Ihe native grasses are mature, nt which lime cattle may be turned to ra e. In tins manner the g'owth of glass is utilh.c; and the gras.; 'vods art- tramp'et! into the soil, which Is nee sai'y to germinal ion. Hy ys-letna:ic ys-letna:ic rolatien each pasture may be allow ed to reseed once in each t hn e lo five years, as desired. Where ranges are heavily stocked in ti e beginning of such a system, it may be necessary to t ransfer -t parr of the herd to othr ranges, but the uJtimnte result will be an increase in the carrying capacity of the ranee, as has been si ow n in various experiences in the SM'thvet. ( vrrstnek tug should he avn'ded in every instance Rave :-.M :.r:y-bMi tu-d, wel'-row i put'--". |