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will do better than any other grass we have on shallow, rocky hillsides.”
In a stockpiling program, spring growth of fescue is cut for hay while summer and early fall growth is left on the ground, taking advantage of a longer growing season, and used for winter cattle forage. White noted that stockpDing saves both money and labor.
He advocated applying nitrogen at approximately 80 pounds per acre to fescue in the late summer or early fall, with phosphate and potash added* if determined necessary by soil tests. If nitrogen is applied, said White, a farmer should get between a ton and a half and two tons of fescue per acre. An acre of stockpiled fescue should carry a cow for 120 days, he noted. Counting both spring growth cut for hay and stockpiled fall growth, a farmer will get “about enough off one-half acre to carry a cow through the winter,” White said. He added that stockpiling also ‘‘works exceptionally well
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