  RE: Medicinal Pastures  Dear April, Thanks for the letters, I
really appreciate them. I think that medicinal pastures could be
put together on an informal design, not like Medieval Medicine
gardens but something simple. Also It would have to be kept
seperate from the stock, cause they wouldn't know one from the
other except by taste and couldn't treat themselves. These
plants also often need special attention and couldn't be grazed
and survive well. The plants could be incorporated into special
feed or pellets with mint for flavor perhaps, and  administered
in more correct dosages. One plant on my list has caused
problems when sheep encounter large amounts of Reed Grass, they
eat themselves to death. About 40 lbs. was found in dead sheep
stomach!  Dear Steve Yes so true, so true I feel like a fool for
suggesting that cattle  have sense (archetypal or not - part of
being domesticated isn''t we loose the instinctual thinking),
now I remember fixing fences and having to herd heiffers and
calves out of the lu