Pasturing Mowing Lands In Autumn
John JoliustOD, w ; i u ia g od ■ uthority on 11 luaiters reluttng to practica] farmin r, Írritos to the ■ ion ultivator as lti!m:- " 1 [lii.l; i( bad pi licy to as tura laeadawa- -uwwjng gnii 1 n iimi, tiiinn nv ;,::.: :. We oan get hert1, doublé tiie (11:1.1! .1 '■ l..-.y, if thu LU ld ■■' - DOI pasturad, and tlicrutorü we only require imlf tin: land tn gel Uw giyon iju miíi y uf hay fröin, and the ut hor half oan b ] .rojiii.ii vil to somclbing else." Tuis 8 V.ilil lllli Opiüioil of t'uo Mili '■ ibji-ct, bat ;i corros poudent of the 'n!b'j k'wtm&t givea reaauna for an opp isite c ui'sc. He says: " My experience is th;it pusturiog mcadows of uny kind u Úc futí slüisou ot' tl; year, is : deoided ndvantage to tliem, provided tliov ara nut pastured too unicb, aud for tlie following reasoos: - If' a lueaduw is lelt to stand ufter harresi without j, ■.-.! iii'.ig in the moDtbs of Aagust and Suptember, if tbere bo a;iy fall rains, thu wild grassea and weeds wil] spring up, and as thoy grow ïnuob taller tlian the fall grow til of' tiiaothy or bluegrass, thcy seeui to choke out the fall growth of the young gras; and ifthe wceda aml wild graeses are allowed to reuiain all winter and spring, they will be materially in tho w:iy tbo folluwing harvcst. 1 have had ampie experienee to provo this in our rich bottora lands My opio lot) is that moadows should be I pastured after liarvcsï, say in the pi inths of September and Ootober, sufiiciently to kocp down (lic weeds and wild grasses. 1 have rjotiöod, partioularly in our büttom iiicudows, where a partitlon fonce ran through tlie ueadow and whcre one side was pasturod regularly every fall scason, and on the otlior sido, bti:i a oom fiuld, or in sütoo way not admittiog pagtuTe by Btöck, that wbile the side of the nieadow regularly, pasturod every fall would keep a giiud set, tho other side, not being püstiiivil, would in a few voars bo taken witli wild weeds and beeo-jje worthless, uuloss brokeo up and nowly set." jliidjigiui Jlrps.
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