Seasonal Composition of Pasture Grasses

During the past three years, 12 or more caged pasture areas have been clipped at monthly intervals.This paper reports the yield and analysis of grass from ten of these areas maintained during the growing seasons of 1930 and 1931.Four areas were in bench land pasture that had been seeded to oats in November, 1929.The other areas were on alluvial land that had been in pasture less than three years.The soil is nearly neutral in reaction, high in phosphorus and apparently in available nitrates, due to manuring.The prevailing vegetation in early spring was White Dutch