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Pasture Investigations on the U. S. Animal Husbandry Experiment Farm, Beltsville, Maryland

Abstract

These investigations were started in 1928 and are designed to discover basic or underlying principles of pasture management, as well as to determine as accurately as possible the productiveness of pastures under the climatic and soil conditions, obtaining at this point the effect of fertilizers on the composition of pasture plants, and the relative yield and palatability of various grasses and legumes. The results obtained on much of this work should be applicable in the Corn-Belt and the Middle Atlantic States.

All the experiments, except one, were started on new seedings. The exception is an observation test on the renovation of an old, permanent pasture. The new seedings were permanent pasture mixtures, containing the most promising grasses and legumes considered adapted to the region and suitable for grazing.

Climatic conditions during the first two years of the experiment were abnormal. Deficient rainfall, coupled with relatively long periods of extremely high temperatures, caused severe damage to all crops.