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Pasture Treatments
Are Recommended
Pastures and food quality hay arc the cheapest source of feed. One hundred pounds of digestible nutrients from good permanent pastuic will cost about 50 to 60 cents; from good alfalfa hay, $•». no to $:•!; and from mixed daily ration resting $75 a ton. it will cost about $5.
A goocj system of. pastures that a ill provide at least 210 days of eontin ous grazing will reduce the feed cost 'of producing milk l,y 20 to 25 percent. Pastures will he worth about 60 to 7-> cents per cow per day, based on $7.> spec ton of dairy feed.
The feed cost in raising pullets can he reduced by 10 per cent with good pastures.
Many acres of land in Rappahannock, not needed for nor adapted to row crops, because they are too steep or too wet, can he profitably used for pasture. The acres of land now in pastures can be improved through proper fertilization and management so they will support 50 to 7 5 percent more livestock. Fertilizer Increatei
Tests made by the VPI Dairy Department on a fairly good bh egrass sod showed that a wellfertilized pasture produced from 60 to 70 percent more feed than unfertilized pasture. Proper fertilization will provide 2 weeks later grazing in the fall and 2 weeks earlier grazing in t h e spring. The value of a pasture is determined to a large extent by how quick new growth comes back after being grazed off. An abundant supply of plant food is necessary for a quick comeback.
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