by Jake Western
If you own a horse property, you continually face pasture-management decisions that affect the productivity, persistence and appearance of your forage crops--and crops they are, whether or not you consider yourself a farmer. How many horses will you turn out in this field? Will they be on continuous turnout or be limited in the amount of time they spend on the acreage? How will you manage the manure dropped in the fields? Does the grass need fertilizing; does the soil need lime? How often should you mow? Should you rotate horses from pasture to pasture to give plants time to recover and regrow after being grazed down? Even if you've never consciously considered these questions, you've made one choice--to do nothing--from among the pasture-care options that have consequences on your finances, your horses' well-being and the "health" of your land.First chief justice and Federalist Papers coauthor John Jay’s greatest legacy was setting the future course of American foreign policy. F ew could fathom why 55-year-old John Jay turned down President Adams’s nomination to rejoin the Supreme ...
Read more... of red sand with old white trees ... sharp saddle cut into the ridge, "and the emu chicks all run that way." "So someone following the Emu Dreaming follows the way the chicks ran off?" I ask. "Yes," he says. "We go there now. A Rain-Maker ...
Read moreThe Devastators (BUT, 12/30). Dave Hillyard and the Rock Steady 7 (The Casbah, 1/7), Asobi Seksu (The Loft @ UCSD, 1/15), Dave and Deke Combo, The Bedbreakers, The Rumblers (The Casbah, 1/22), Scarlet Symphony (The Casbah, 1/26), ALO (BUT, 2/11). Bob ...
Read more