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A Plan and Preliminary Results of a Permanent Pasture Grazing Test^*

South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, Clemson College

ABSTRACT

During the growing seasons of 1929 and 1932 inclusive, 46 plots of old established bermuda pasture sod were used to determine the effect of various fertilizer treatments on the yield and composition of this pasture grass.

The plots were each one two-hundredth of an acre net in size with suitable borders. They were clipped at regular two-week intervals throughout the growing season, green yields determined, and samples taken for chemical analysis.

The soil of these plots is of the Cecil sandy clay loam type with an average pH of 5.3.

Fifteen different fertilizer combinations were used on both a limed and an unlimed series, all applications being made at the rate of 600 pounds per acre for each designated formula.

At the beginning of the test the limed series received an application of ground dolomitic limestone at the rate of two tons per acre.

The results of this plot work show that the only profitable fertilizer treatment for pasture on this soil type is lime and phosphorus.

^* Technical contribution number 31 of the South Carolina Experiment Station, Clemson College, S. C.

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