Prickly pear as stock feed
By: David Griffiths
Series: Farmers' bulletin / United States Department of Agriculture -- no. 1072; Farmers' bulletin (United States. Department of Agriculture) -- no. 1072
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Published: 1920
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Prickly pears; Cattle; Feeding and feeds
Description: "Prickly pears may be fed to live stock in a green, succulent condition right from the field as needed. They require no curing, housing, or storage. In this they offer an advantage over most crops. They can be grown at a minimum expense, only the cost of planting and keeping down the weeds being involved, although the yield, like that of most crops is in direct proportion to the care and labor bestowed. Prickly pear will thrive where the rainfall is too irregular for most standard farm crops. Its yields are large and cumulative, increasing from year to year, so that a heavy tonnage may be had from small areas or use at critical periods. Prickly pear is green and succulent and admirably adapted to produce "good condition" in cattle when used with dry feeds. Cattle in brush pastures are known to have subsisted upon it even without water for long periods."--[2].
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Table of contents: title: Importance of prickly pear; title: Forms of prickly pear; title: Distribution of prickly pears; title: Composition and value of the forage; title: Soil requirements; title: Moisture requirements; title: Temperature requirements; title: Ideal conditions for growth; title: Propagation; title: Planting; title: Cultivation; title: Time of harvesting; title: Yields; title: Feeding prickly pears; title: Transportation of prickly pears; title: Stability of the spineless character; title: How to obtain prickly pears; title: Fruit and forage varieties.