1. For the development of stock farming in Korea, these things are to be remembered: the cultivation of imported forage crops was already tried out 50 or 60 years ago and, even if the result of cultivation was good, it did not mean the green signal fo...
1. For the development of stock farming in Korea, these things are to be remembered: the cultivation of imported forage crops was already tried out 50 or 60 years ago and, even if the result of cultivation was good, it did not mean the green signal for stock farming, because the stock farming can be developed only when, with the rise of the standard of living, the people demand great quantity of meat for their vital food.
2. Lespedeza, which is of korean origin, was exported to U.S.A. and cultivated widely as an important forage crops. In Korea, however, lespedeza can't be used economically as a forage crop, because difficulties in the establishment of grass land, as Korea is mountainous and lacks great plain and full of various weeds.
3. To see if pangola grass, which is very prolific and fast growing and one of the worst weed for cultivation of upland crops in Korea, but a favorite for livestocks, can be used forage crops, and its reaction against fertilizer, I fertilized the grass. The results: the grass. multiplies five times as compared to being unfertilized and reacts more favorable to three-element fertitizer than to one-element fertilizer.
4. When the seedlings of pangola grass are planted unfertilized, they lose their characteristic crawing habit and stnand upright, but, with enought nourishment, they regained the habit and the effect of the fertilizer on the grass is more remarkable than other crops.