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18. Medium and high amounts of available bluegrass-whiteclover pasture were maintained by controlled stocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 19. Pastures were stocked at three rates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 20. Maximum production per animal and per acre cannot be obtained simultaneously . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 21. Milk per cow varies daily while grazing a rotational pasture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 22. Diagram of available pasture when using first and last grazers in rotational grazing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 23. Animals select leafy forage high in protein and digestibility and low in fibrous material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 24. A 12-foot gate serves for creep grazing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 25. The potential production per animal with grazing methods with grazing seasons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 26. During 2 years at Middleburg nursing calves gained 0.33 lb daily when restricted to milk as compared to a 2 lb daily gain for creep-fed nursing calves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 27. Liberal feeding of beef cows did not improve liveweight gains of 4 to 8 month old nursing calves with creep feed during 2 years at Middleburg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 28. For leafy pastures, energy intake by horses and ruminants is directly related to available pasture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 29. Ensiling a grain variety of corn in a hard dent stage when yields are high and about 40 8141328n dry matter makes a high energy silage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 30. The plan shows three 15-acre divided into three fields for each of three forage systems stocked with nine cows, 1 2/3 acre per cow and calf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
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