White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-02-28
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r,rpi,. stock to Grass Early.

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Dssr Sir: In the last number Of the Farmer
7 noticed an article On turning stock TO grass
ssrly, and that you requested your correspon
dents to give their experiences on thst subject.
Since then have talked with some Of our most
sxpeislced graders, and find this opinion to
be general in this county (Which annually fat
tens for market upwards Of twenty thousand
besyss,) the earlier cattle are turned 10 grass
the better. When commenced grazing, four
years ago, found this to be the general prac-
tics, and / followed Il without making any s1-
pertinent myself; but an informed by one Of
my neighbors-Mr. Charles ]. Stovin, who has
grazsd for thirty years past, IN an average. t~o
hundred bead Of cattle annualIy-thst he has
sees the experiment tried. Two lots Of cattle.
equal in all respects, and which had been win
tered alike, were selected in the spring. and
enc lot tsrned 10 grass ten days earlier than the
and maintained il throughout the season. being
ready for market one month sooner than the
second lot.
gentleman BY the name Of Fletcher, in the
upper end of this county, was In the habit ofrs.
serving one Of his sod eslds through the winter
and turning lot Of cattle about the middle Of
February. He was thus enabled 10 sssd them
70 4nartst about the FIRST Of June, when bssfis
generally high. He was very successful gra
sisr. s
There can be no doubt whatever - to the
fact that, in our country at least, the sooner We
kbar, 30 in ba he
The grass at that season 10 tender, and has the
quality Of purging the cattle, loosening their
hides, and causing them to shed Of. II thus
prepares their systems to take on tat rapidly -
soon as the pasturage becomes stronger and
more mature. Later in the season Il seems to
lose this quality in measure. have known
msp 70 turn their cattle on their meadows for
eight or ten days, early in the spring, 90 - 70
give them start against the regular pasture be-
comes q: to turn on. -.
This is one ofthe finest grazing sections in
the country. The land seems to BE- naturally
adapted 10 grass, running into sod very quickly
after fallow. One of my neighbors-Mr. ].
J. Hunton Of Woodstock-has field of one
hundred acres Of green sward, from which he
fastens from eighty to ninety head of cattle sv-
cry year and in a good grass season have
seen portions Of the field from which . good
swath Of grass might have been cut when the
cattle we're taken OF in July. On the rest Of
his estate he fattsns about two hundred head.
0nthe adjoining estate of Airley Mr.. Chas.
J. Stevin fattsns shout two hundred and seven
ty-fvs head. He has field Of about one hun
dred and fifty acres, on which this spring he
turned one hundred cattle and ninety sheep.
aud kept them there until the first of June,
whsna portion of them were moved Of. The
grass is now nearly knee high over the field.
There are sods in this county nearly fifty
years old, and 50 firm and strong that, to quote
the language of our representative, the Hon.
VIM. Smith, ga, bullock of thousand weight
may walk over them after weeks rain with.
out soiling his hoofs more than lady would
coil hsEdelicats satin slipper BY crossing
Turkey carpet" This may sound like hyper
bols. but unto all that doubt, 1 say "cons and
See" .a5zcJ aE.l LesIE
R. w. BOWMAN, Fsuquier Co, Va.
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