The Panola weekly star. (Sardis, Miss.) 1882-18??, 1884-11-29
PERMANENT PASTURES.
How They May Be Made More Beautiful
ana Profitable Than They Now Are.

ana Profitable Than They Now Are.
Americans travelling In England are
aficn enthusiastic in their admiration
of English permanent pastures, and
Euglishmen, In turn, who come Ia thi,
country, are sometimes at a loss 10
know how we can keep cattle at an
upon such poor pastures as they some.
time. lind here upon our dry hill sides.
A subscriber TO the Faym6r, recently
returned from England, ha, been al.
tempting to describe to u. an English
pasture. as he found II ut IL, best. o 4
one Of the noted stock farms IN the
southeastern part Of the Island. Such
luNuriancc, such q depth Of ]yrlyeiy yer.
durr, he bad never seen before, not
even In the best pasture in the best
natural griy. district, of Vermont.
Nor DID be- ever 20 home see such noun.
tain- Of flesh and fnl q. he found lazi5
grazing IN these luNuriant pastures.
To the question wc put 20 our friend.
can such pastures be- made In this coun-
try, hc answered: ''lcs. not q doubt OF
it, lie said that the Engli,hman
secuted The idea OF Keeping his cattle
upon gra,. alone. even in a June past
urc where the feed was u foot high. and
rs thick rs q mat, but wa, giving them
oil meal or cotton seed meal In
large irDughs In the open air.
and where the cattle could help them
-clye, 10 IL at' pleasure. Conditions in
England and America arr BY no means
alike. Here land on the average Is low
IN price, there II Is biz; here the cli-
mate is sunny, there IL is foggy much OF
the time. and just suited To continual
growth Of the grass crop Here the
winters arr long. and our farmers give
great attention 10 grass for hay. and
70 other crops grown for feeding In
stables in winter. There the cattle ARE
IN the open mir nearly the whole year
through. and obtain a far larger part
oi Their living from the pasture feed.
turuip, being extensively grown for
Wiutcr feeding In the field. Natura.
pastures 10 England are rarely ploughcd,
and the very best land is devoted TO
pasture. II Is believed that a pasture
grows better as Il grows older: the sod
getting thicker, and the variety Of grass
greater. Here our pasture. are often
the rough lands that are too stoncy. too
steep, or too poor TO plough and cul-
tivaic. They are fed with no regard
whatever To Improvement. nor y
10 keeping up their present state Of fer
tility. They are oycr-fed In dry weather
and undcr.fcd at other times. Bushes
and weed, get III and spread without
amy effort being made to cXterminnte
them. II may not be possible for all
farmers 10 have ~ good pastures ~ are
in England, but many might have most
excellent ones, II they would treat their
lands a the English farmers treat
theirs.
Our best pastures would noed 60 hs
made on lands which arc now a litpe
too vet for cultivation. There arr
many thousands Of such acres. nov
half grown up To bushes, which only
need undertaking 60 render them the
best lands We have. Thorough drainage
will put them In condition to be pas.
tured at any time after the ground
settles IN spring. without having the
sod ruined by the trampling Of animals.
After draining they should be ploughcd
and thoroughly cultivated for a year at
least, and MANFRED heavily. especially
II \ crup 10 taken In the time. We
would prefer taking of no crop; early
IN August we would sow o variety 81
seed suited for pastures: kenturky blue
gras,. orchard grass. meadow fcscue.
white clover and rcd top would be- the
leading varieties. The next rear we
would turn In only Young cattle that
would TRAD the ground lightly. and wa
would no, feed close. The second year
cattle a little heavier might be turned
in.and the third year would give . good
firm sod. The after treatment would
be- moderate pasturing. heavy feeding
Of the animals with grain. and an
occasional dressing Of fine steamed bone
and wood ashes. especially II milch
COWS were kept In the pasture. There
i no doubt that such a method would
produce NJ good n pasture as our Amer.
lean climate would allow II being made.
The next question Is. would Il psyP AZ
\ rule we do no, think 1t would. That
is 70 say. 4 field treated in the way we
have described would pay betbr as now.
ing than as a pasture. esccpe where \
pasture Is wanted for keeping very
choice cattle that require exercise for
maintaining them In The best Of health.
A field treated as We have described.
would produce thrre or four tons Of hay
PER acre at two cuttings. In p~asturing.
much i soiled and injured by tramping
Of feet. and By pulling up while terd-
ing Then there are the unavoidable
accidents. worms that eat Oh The RIOTS.
Ice thst Kills In winter. and drought IN
summer. The English landlord values
bic acres. and the English farmer hs
fat animals. mone than either values the
lsbeFsF that dees the work. and earns
the money 10 pay the rent. With u
land L II less consequence than the man
Who tiIls Il. or the man who y support
"A ~ ~ crcr~ rrvavr~a A. rcrals-
tipn ~innfrases and land grows scarce
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