On Stall Feeding and Clover Cultivation in Switzerland

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scythe as it should be.

Meanwhile, even autumn has its great inconveniences and great concerns regarding grazing. If the pasture is lean, little is to be gained; if it is rich, the livestock runs the risk of dying on the spot from bloating due to wet grass if it is not helped almost instantly. No year passes in which we do not have frequent examples of this in my homeland, be it on fields or in valleys. One should also consider how heavily rich meadows are trampled during this humid season by the heavy tread of oxen and cows and filled with holes. In these holes, excess moisture remains in the following spring, which creates sour, hard grass that, even if it were better, cannot be cut to the ground with the scythe as it should be.