The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-07
Permanent Pasture-Eow to Make It.

Editor Of the Morning News. ] have
town lot of one acre that want to make
into PERI Enent summer and winter graz
ing pasture for my horse and COW. Please
TN me what grasses can use that will
j. suited TO this section and will furnish
grazing the year round.
tn. land is a sandy loan. For summer
PASTURE know bermuda grass is the best,
Int FOR winter do not know
When is the best time to start and what
fertilizers would be best to use.
j. b. Wight.
Thomas county.
To have year-round pasture Of course.
81 is necessary to use mixture of grasses
ami clovers. There are two or three
months i'm the year when it is impossible
to have grazing. The grass family is
tender and cease to afford pasturage
shortly after the first hard freeze. but we
have ci0vers that, properly managed, af-
4 f,ri grazing during the winter. except
4 when the weather is very severe, as it
4 usually proves after the middle of De
cerb.r.
Bermuda grass, as summer pasture.
4 aaj as "a single grass, is unequalled. Prop
4 arlv managed it makes splendid pasture
s from june I to Oct. flour months-say
sometimes so long as five months. There
& ave- several covers that can be made to
q grow with and alternate with the bermuda,
thereby yielding a pasture about ten
morrhs-eight or nine, any how, of the
year. White clover, bur clover, crimson
clover red clover sapling clover and
Japan clover have all been found ADAPTED
70 the purpose of growing alternately and
with bermuda. It is only a question of
providing the necessary plant food to ac-
comphsh the purpose.
But for perennial and permanent pas
tGre i is stan better to use mixture of
from siN To- twelve Cor even moro of diff
fe.eut grasses and clovers. If a farmer
recognizes the value of this plan and is
able to back his judgement. he will do the
ri-lt thing in using one or the other of the
mixtures that We suggest below. 1t is not
always the case that a south
I'm farmer can procure the sew
eral grass and clover seeds Just
as he. may need them. And unless he
starts about procuring the seeds some con-
Siderable time in advance of the period
tHat be- may need them for sowing, he
may hnd that they are not obtainable.
ST I'd most of those named are to be had
ON few weeks not.ce-if not in some
Georgia city, anyhow in ST. Louis, or
Louisville. or Philadelphia.
4 most excellent pasture can be made
s with four, or three, or even two plants,
hJi as we remarked, much better and
more reliable one can be made by com
tn.ns greater variety.
As the result of several inquiries we
shall devote a part Of several issues to
naming the several mixtures that can be
used TO advantage by southern farmers.
10 This issue We name the following as
NO l;' others TO follow.
Orchard Grass, Y pounds.
Meadow O2t Grass, 10 pounds.
Red Glover, pounds.
Iur Clover 10 pounds (burs).
Red Top. Z pounds.
Perennial Rye Grass, pounds.
White Clover, pounds.
Total, so pounds.
THE use of this mixture implies the use
OF land that is free from native growths
OF Bermuda and other grasses native to
our soils. All of these grasses and clo-
eiS VIII do VOL on southern soils if
Property sown and properly treated af-
q terWard.
Where one has Bermuda sward it is
always proper thing to do to SOW any
OF me following clovers on it in October,
which viii permit fair to good grazing
rom February to May or June: White
mover bur clover, crimson clover, red
ana sapling clovers
"a IeHlotus (BOkhara or sweet clover
also ihrives admirably on Bermuda grass
|"ard, but some stock will almost starve
lore they will eat it in a green state,
'.ouSh fond of it as hay"
ne south is so rich in grasses and clio
FRS one hardly knows how to decide up
"" "a selection in first starting off. We
lal discuss the matter at considerable
'Asln IN the next few months, and while
toHs SO invite comment and suggestion
'n every reader who IS able and will
~ 10 throw all the light possible on this
A,'-hey interesting and important sub
Jr-l-imrrOVed pastures