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9. The Eradication of Brush and Weeds from Pasture Lands 1
Author(s) -
Aldous A. E.
Publication year - 1929
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1929.00021962002100060010x
Subject(s) - section (typography) , citation , pasture , library science , political science , agricultural science , agronomy , computer science , biology , operating system
Kansas contains approximately 22 million acres of land used for pasture. Most of this land is potentially valuable only for grazing livestock, owing to the broken character of the surface or the shallow nature of the soil which ma~:e cultivation impractical. A study of statistics has shown that the grazing value of this land has greatly decreased in the last 25 years. In the Flint Hill region, which occupies about 5 million acres of some of the best pasture ]and in the United States, this decrease has been approximately 25%. Such reduction has been accompanied in most instances by an incoming of worthless plants that have taken the space formerly occupied by the valuable grasses. This change has been most pronounced on small farm pastures where improper grazing methods have been more generally practiced. The eradication of the non-palatable vegetation is an important factor in the restoration of the pastures to their normal prodi~ctivity. The eradication work should also be accompanied by such grazing methods as will permit the forage plants to come back. In view of the great need for information on the improvement of run-down pastures, experiments were started in ~ 926 by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station to determine the best methods of eradicating weeds and brush. The report on the results presented in this paper are only preliminary, owing to the short time that the experiments have been conducted. It is also impossible to report on most of the work done during the past summer because the results cannot be checked until growth starts next season.