When he gets more stock, he believes it will not be to summer fallow any of the land, but by rotation of crops make it produce either grain, pasture, or hay every year. This man has been raising cattle for a number of years and prior to the time he raised cattle, he bought steers and fed them on his farm and made a profit. But he found he could not always buy steers or other cattle. Someone must produce them. So he planted the low lands on his farm to grass. These low lands produce the finest hay and pasture but are not good for grain. "I have often had the wheat fall down in these low places and did not get more than 10 bushels per acre," said he, "and that cut down the average yield, but grass solved the problem."
Since he began raising or keeping cattle on the farm, this man's yield of wheat per acre has increased. The ground yields better if livestock run on it. He has threshed as high as 64 bushels of wheat per acre after pasturing the wheat 15 to 25 days in the spring. Last April he pastured 40 head of cattle on 65 acres of wheat for 15 days and the wheat looked last Sunday as if it would yield better than 40 bushels per acre, without any more ram.
People will tell us that this does not pay. This farmer says he has. 