Date of Award:

5-1931

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences

Department name when degree awarded

Dairy Husbandry

Committee Chair(s)

George B. Caine

Committee

George B. Caine

Committee

George Stewart

Committee

R. J. Becraft

Committee

George Q. Bateman

Abstract

"Pasture is the natural food of all domesticated herbivore, especially the ruminant, and the only single feed upon which it can be maintained in health indefinitely."

Pastures rank next to the alfalfa hay crop in total production of forage far livestock in Utah. For approximately five months each year pastures turnish the cheapest supply of feed available for dairy production. Their improvement and utilization to the best advantage as a source of valuable feed in Utah has been overshadowed by the abundance of alfalfa hay with its rich supply of minerals and high quality protein. There is a potentiality of feeding values in pasture, in its minerals, its vitamins, its proteins, and palatableness, which is only appreciated to a small degree. How to utilize these feeding values to the best advantage is a problem in dairy production today.

What is the influence, if any, of periodic clipping on the yields of pasture forage? Is there any relation between such clipping and the grazing of animals which will indicate a method suitable for deriving larger returns from pasture forage? Specifically, then, the purpose of this study is to determine, if possible, the influence of periodic clipping on the yield of forage in certain pastures at North Logan, Utah.

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