Grass Productivity

Title Page
 Copyright Page
 Foreword
 Table of Contents
 Note: Conversion from Metric to British Units
 Introduction to the Island Press Edition 
 Introduction
 Part One: The Grass 
 1. What is a Herbage Plant?
 2. The Curve of Grass Growth
 3. Rest Period and Annual Production of Grass
 4. Seasonal Fluctuations in Grass Growth
 5. Influence of Fertilisers on the Vigour of Growth and on the Production of Grass
 6. An Immense Army of Lilliputian Ploughmen Bury the Phospho-Potassic Fertilisers Applied to the Pasture
 7. White Clover, a Factory for Free Nitrogen Production. 8. At What Height Should Grass be Grazed?9. The Composition of Grass
 Part Two: The Cow 
 1. How the Cow Harvests the Grass
 Photo Inserts 1-7
 2. The Quantities of Grass Harvested by the Cow
 3. Quantities of Milk Produced by the Cow When She Harvests Her Own Grass
 4. The Cow is a Gourmet
 5. Conversion of Nitrogenous Substances in the Stomach of the Cow
 6. Grass Tetany
 Part Three: Laws of Rational Grazing 
 Requirements of the Grass and of the Cow
 Part Four: Principles for the Conduct of Rational Grazing 
 1. Definition of the Basic Elements. 2. Determination of the Number of Paddocks is the Basis of the Rational Grazing Plan3. Division of the Herd into Groups
 4. Compensation for Seasonal Fluctuations in Grass Growth
 5. Compensation for Seasonal Fluctuations in Grassland Production by Varying the Number of Paddocks in the Rota 
 Photo Inserts 8-10
 6. Compensation for Seasonal Fluctuations in Grassland Productivity by Application of Nitrogen 
 7 External Methods of Compensating for Seasonal Fluctuations
 Part Five: Rational Grazing in Practice 
 1. Flexibility in Management is Essential
 Photo Inserts 11-13. 2. Putting Out to Grass in Rational GrazingPart Six: Common Errors in Supposedly Rational Systems of Grazing 
 1. Rotation was Recommended by the Encyclopædists of the Enlightenment
 2. Pioneers of Rotation Failed to Recognise the Importance of the \"Time\" Factor
 Photo Inserts 14-15
 3. Untoward Acceleration
 Part Seven: Tethering and Rationed Grazing, Special Systems of Rational Grazing 
 1. Tether Grazing
 Photo Inserts 16-18
 2. Different Forms of Rationed Grazing
 3. Does Rationed Grazing Produce 25% More Than Rotation? 4. Rational Grazing Allowing a Variable Grazing Area but no Area of Pasture that has Already Been Grazed (One Group Only)5. Rationed Grazing Where the Animals Have Access to an Area That has Already been Grazed (One Group Only)
 6. Rationed Grazing with Two Groups
 Photo Inserts 19-22
 7 Grazing Rationed in Time
 Part Eight: Dividion of Pastures 
 1. A General Problem
 2. Watering Points and Access Corridors
 Photo Inserts 23-26
 3. Divided Pastures
 Photo Inserts 27-33
 Part Nine: Rational Grazing Transforms the Flora 
 1. Extremely Rapid Evolution of the Flora.