Gunnison news-champion., 1915-06-18
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v han director of agrscsltsrs e.
sson work a. University of is'sho Pei
sritsr arranged xlsh ss.ps J ;. -t
- Haks yrsctscsl grazing asnaes
tIon upon the grass usExsare used llc
area. a measured acre ws~ d'sso'
cru-s fences with three DIVISIONS. lso
coxs were presIsisa 10 ersze the aa
These were tsrpea into ios No. l. q as
soon ns II Was grazea down - clio
Superintendent Weich and myself @
was advisable. cows we're turned .
lot No. 2. Lot No. | Was nos CHI el
50 any high stshs or uneven. un.
grass would be cat auUn even WI
other cropped areas. and the hot sas
then given a good irrigation. whsn af
2 was sufficiently erszed. COWS were
turned INTO hot No. 3 and sot tr,aisa
same az lot No. 1, viz: clipped sne r-i-
gated. Then the cows rotated to 10 No
again and so on throughout the grs ziug
season. Part of the time three cows
had TO be placed on the pasture to keeF
the grass down. Toe milk given aa-
weighed night and morning and from
that acre of pasture from May d. l8
Sept. rs was produced ASH rs pour u
milk. AT the local price of butt "a
and skim milk 1t gave q cash returu Vi
$s3 81 for the pasture grass.
THIS is over a. per cent returr on
$500 land. the prevailing price in that
district for good irrigated land. Yet
some people argue irrigated land i too
high priced for pasture uses, for DAIRY
COW purposes.
Superintendent Welch reports in Bull
letin No. 50 of Idaho the results OF the
three-year grazing test to date, 1917 l3-
Ia, also shows that from a grass mix
ture pasture under irrigation he was
able to get $50 pounds of beef per acre
from the grass.
He has shown that two dairy cows
can be maintained on each acre Of good
pasture well taken care of and that
three beef steers per acre can similarly
be assigned to each pasture acre under
same conditions.
I At the Caldwell Station is maintained
good 20 acre pasture similar to the B.
acre test plots at Gooding
Prof. George +. Morton. head of the
animal husbsndry department. Colorado
Agricultural College, in his field work
has demonstrated that, while heavier
soils require a greater amount of seed
per acre to get good pasture stsnd Of
grass, when once obtained, the follow
ing season after seeding such pasture
under irrigation, will maintain two head
of mich cows per acre Throughout lhe
growing season.
TEMPORARY GRAIN PASTURES
What shall we do for home pasture
while waiting for the new seeding to
furnish grass for the dairy herd? The
writer suggests seeding grain out of
season. Winter rye, winter wheat,
winter barley, any one, or a mixture of
oil three. These stool but do not tend
generally to throw grain or seed culms,
because they are sown out of season.
They therefore make for the one season
4 very good pasture substitute and if
psstured with care will carry the dairy
herd.
The grasses are the very foundation
of successful live stock farming. 1t is
to be hoped that state and government
will cooperate in maintaining the splen-
did grazing lands of our intermOuatain
country that are such an asset to us,
the dollar and cent value of which few
of us take time to estimate. Those
countries have enjoyed the most asting
prosperity that have maintained their
grass area inviolate. This does not
mean maintaining the meadows and
pastures in same fields indefinitely, but
it does mean that grass becomes an in
tegral part of every farm and this i'm
portsnt crop is found in the rotation.
Where grasses are grown and led, the
farm fertility is maintained and fertile
farms usually mean prosperous farmers.
Give the grass the place on the arm it
deserves and merits, use its crop with
economy and purpose and it viii smooth
out the financial wrinkles and cars as
surely as 1t carpets the earth, cuvering
up ugly, unsightly spots with rs rich
velvet coat of green.
Grass more thoroughly tones and in
vigorates the soil for succeeding crops
than anything else we can name. 1t
adds greater per cent of hun than
any other crop and humus is ne one
element our intermountain soils most
need Therefore keep the e. 5, and