Mowing Is Beneficial.

Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 51, 4 December 1929, Page 2

Mowing Is Beneficial.

Another important point to be remembered with regard to making this wasted grass into ensilage is the beneficial effect the mowing has on the pasture, as rank growth means that the coarser grasses grow so strong and vigorously that the finer grasses and clovers are smothered out, which meins that perhaps a pasture which was at one time a good one has b?en spoiled by being left open in the turf thus being free to invasion bv weeds and other undesirable species of plant life. North Auckland farmers who depend so much on paspalum should bear in mind that the early cubing of a pasture for ensilage is most beneficial both to the pasture and to the quality ®f ensilage made and the aftermath where eirly cutting is done is good. It provides nutritious feed for the stock which otherwise in all probability would have become rank and produced unpalatable feed of low nutritive value.