Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-27
REQUISITES Of a Good Pasture.

Land suitable to produce crop or
Grass is the first essential. It is not
necessary that i sheGld be smooth. Of
roc from stones and ravinns. or TIN,
he soil LG of uniform character III |
richness. Broken and uneven lend o.
'cn makes very excellent posture. All
G land IL q pasture need not bo ''high
lal dry" For affording food durino
9rotractcd droughts some low land is
desirable. IF the low land can be sen
grated from the high by a division
fence. stock may be kept from the for
mcrat times when the sod would re-
coive injury from the feet Of the cattle
If a portion of pasture is high and .
portion low a good supply ofteca may
be secured from the time the frost
leaves the soil in the spring till it en-
ters it in the fail. Pastures of nearly
uniform surface generally fail to af
ford supply Of grass during the Gil
tire grazing season.
A variety Oforasses and other fod-
der plants is essential to o good pas
ture. The greater the variety the
larger will be the amount OF food pro
ducpd, while the supply will be more
nearly uniform during the season it is
vented. Some grasses are in theil
best estate very early in the spring
some in the middle Of summer. ami
others quite late III the fall. The var.
ieties that spring up first are generally
the first to fail. Timothy is good
pasture grass in June, but is of little
value i'll July and August. Many of
the grasses afford very large amount
Of food during few weeks, but at the
end of that time afford very little Or
chard and blue grass will supply food
longer than most varieties, but they
will not produce an abundance at any
one time. In seeding pasture the
object should be to insure a large
amount of feed atall seasons.
1t is much easier to keep supply OF
grass and clover in pasture that has
an uneven surface than in one where
the land is nearly uniform as respects
elevation and moisture. Red top pro.
duces feed abundant in quantity and
excellent in quality in land that is toll.
erably moist, but the contrary is the
case when it grows on high, dry soils
White clover does its best on dry knobs
and hill sides, but does not flourish OF
lands that are moist. Red clover
thrives on loamy soils that are neither
very moist nor very dry. Alsike or
Swedish clover will grow on land that
is quite moist during large part of
the year. Red clover and timothy Dc
poorly i'll partial shade, but while
clover and orchard grass flourish finely
in groves that have been cleared of un-
der brush. Foul meadow and blue
joint delight i'll swampy places where
many grasses will not grow at all.
A constant supply OF pure and toll
erably cool water is essential to good
pasture. The value ola good spring
or spring brook is hardly to be esti-
mated i'll gold. Its price is above all
wells, pumps, and windmills. BY
means OF a spring trough OF reservoir
may be kept full at all times without
trouble OF expense. A large pasture
should be supplied with several
troughs OF pools where stock CAP
drink. During very hot weather ami
mails will suffer with thirst rather
than go long distances to obtain water
to drink. Ii there is but one place in
q pasture where water can be obtained
animals will quarrel to see who will
have the first chance and the younger
and more feeble will be likely to re-
ceive injuries. A liberal supply Of
pure water is essential to the pro-
duction of large yield of good milk,
and it is equally important for the for
nation OF lat and muscle.
Every pasture should contain shel.
ter which is us grateful to beasts as to
men. If there are no native trees nc
time should be lost i'll planting trees
that will afford shade. Linden all.!
cotton wood grow very rapidly III
prairie soils and soon furnish Il dense
shade. Many other hardy trees do
we'll on different soils. Trees planted
in clusters do much TO beautify o pas
ture, besides furnishing stock place
OF shelter from che blazing SUN.