Show rex whittaker says good pasture beats feed lots there wro ore acrea acre a 0 f pasture pastura la in pluto flute county that need improving according to our work program if our accles of 0 wet meadow land could be put into litigated liri gated pasture it would mean an increase in milk production ot of pounds ot butter per year per acre from my personal experience I 1 know that irrigated pasture in beaver county has produced enough grasses load end clovers to care of 0 three steers per acre tor for sly elx months with an increase in weight per steer ol of pounds the first step in improving the pasture Is water control it you can control your water you can harvest what Is on the native pasture I 1 have a 40 acre native pasture that has haa been recently drained I 1 believe in the tha lost last 10 byears before it was drained we were only able to out cut it twice on this ihla pasture recently drained we got our heaviest hay we got as high as 2 tons per acre it consists ot of broad leaf and wire gross we are fattening our cattie on it by feeding grain and beet pulp and we just use that ana a filler I 1 value the native pasture for wintering dry stock you got get all thit that use on it for or a little irrigating in the spring and the time it takes to put it up cattle will winter on it it you 11 it it yoh give them enough it you stretch wout t out too much they will starve to death aea th in improving native meadows latter after water control I 1 would say the next thing Is land ilva billave I 1 i have llaVe hea had solm BOme i e experience with broadcasting strawberry clover we sawed bowed it la in wire and broad lent leaf grass gram on areas which we have been able to irrigate there has been some strawberry clover come this broadcasting was done about three years ago and baw clover plants are very much in evidence another good plant which I 1 have found by ex in meadow Improve improvement me at la is reed canary grass about live five years ago I 1 sowed bowed pounds ot of reed canary grass gram on sit an area which was vas primarily tules tulea tat cat ta tails ills now we have a fair stand pf af reed canary grass with few tules tulea harold gottfredson la is conduct ag an aai experiment on a native ma aal grass pasture paa iture obviously he be made a mistake by turning up ahe th heavy soil and alkali under salt grass sod eod he went over this tend land seven times with plows flud and harrows barrows then planted it corrugated gated it and tried to irrigate it tout but could not ge any water pen atlon into the soil he plans to level this land and establish a border irritation irrigation system planting barley and sweet clover one year it IE these alkali tolerant plants thrive one year the next nert year mr gottfredson plans to establish au aa irrigated pasture on the other baad ban d elwood dalton pleated planted on an irrigated pasture last spring with very good results he grazed it this fall and claims that the teed feed was as valuable as a crop 4 |