Show Up in Smoke Burning of pastures and meadows costs farmers millions of dollars each year in soil losses and decreased yields of grasses Experiments in Kansas show that the yield of bluestem bluestem bluestem blue- blue stem grasses was cut 48 to 88 per percent percent percent cent depending on the time of burn burn- Fall burning most ing was ous Oklahoma tests show that where wooded pasture was burned the runoff was 28 times as great and soil loss 12 times as great asfor as asfor asfor for areas not burned |