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Promote The Growth Of Forage: The parasites or their eggs, which are passed with the manure, are thus taken in with the food and causes reinfestation. One method of reducing parasitic infection is pasture rotation—a given pasture is left ungrazed long enough for the infective parasites to die for lack of suitable hosts. Prevention of infestation is almost impossible where the horse population is dense. Warm weather and abundant rainfall or pasture irrigation not only promote the growth of forage but also favor the continuation of the life cycle of horse parasites.
(2) Improvement of forage production. Forage yields may be improved by seeding new and better species, by spraying the range with herbicides to kill undesirable and sometimes poisonous weeds and brush to permit better growth of more palatable forage, by fertilizing the soil, and by spreading floodwater over adjacent rangeland.
(3) Increase in usability of the range. On many ranges the topography is so rough and the watering places are so poorly distributed that it is difficult to achieve complete and uniform grazing use, especially when the animals are unattended by herders. This problem can be solved in part by building fences to control the distribution of the animals.
Aerating the lawn will promote healthy growth. The easiest way to aerate it is to spike it with an ordinary. |
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