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Make worn out land pay in pasture for beef cattle

Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station

Abstract

During the past ten years Dr. E. N. Fergus of the Department of Agronomy and the writer cooperating have been carrying on a grazing experiment to determine whether worn out land can be so treated as to make it profitable for beef production. This work was conducted at the Western Kentucky Experiment Substation on what is known as the Chester Sandstone area of the State. This farm was purchased by the Experiment Station in 1926. The soil on the part of this farm where this experiment is being conducted was so worn out by continued cropping with no returns of manure or fertilizer that it would not produce ten bushels of corn per acre and had been abandoned by those who had owned it as unprofitable.

The pasture consisted of a very scanty growth of common lespedeza and wild grasses together with a wide variety of weeds. Seventy-five samples of top and subsoil were taken and analyzed by the Department of Chemistry.