to 25 dollars per hundred-weight. The seed weighs about 16 pounds 

 per bushel. After having seeded a small area, the grower may find 

 it profitable to grow his own seed rather than pay 25 or 30 cents per 

 pound for it. 



The seed should be sown in late August or early September, so as 

 to be ready to germinate as soon as the first fall rains come. In case 

 of a dry autumn the crop will be late, but under favorable conditions 

 a heavy stand will be produced, furnishing excellent pasture from 

 December to April or May ; or if it is desired for hay, one or some- 

 times two crops may be secured. 



The grass is naturally an annual, producing its seed and then 

 dying, but if prevented from seeding by continuous cutting or pas- 

 turing, it will survive several years and produce well; but as the 

 grass dries up during the summer, the use of the land during that 

 period is practically lost. Results giving the most general satisfac- 

 tion in growing this grass may be secured by pasturing it until 

 spring and then letting it reseed itself. After it has matured its 

 seed, the land may be plowed and sown, preferably to cowpeas or 

 Japan clover, which should be harvested in time to allow the rescue 

 grass to start again with the first autumnal rains. Excellent volun- 

 teer crops may be secured in this way for several years. 



FEEDING VALUE. 



Oats, rye, barley, and hairy vetch are the other principal annual 

 plants grown with more or less success for winter forage in the region 

 to which rescue grass is adapted ; so that it must be compared with 

 these in determining its relative value. Professor Tracy, writing 

 of this grass in Bulletin No. 20, of the Mississippi Station, says: 

 "Sown with equal care it will give a better winter pasture than will 

 either oats or rye, and in the spring can be plowed in with equal 

 advantage as a fertilizer." For hay, Professor Phares says it is 

 equal to a good stand of oats. 



Professor Brunk, of the Texas Agricultural College, in writing of 

 it, says : "It makes more forage in February and March than any 

 other grass tried. When cut for hay in April it produced about two 

 tons per acre." He places it second in a list of grasses for winter 

 pasture in Texas, placing reed canary grass, which is a perennial, 



first. 



Professor McCarthy, in reporting on this grass in Bulletin No. 73, 

 of the North CaroHna Experiment Station, says: "It requires rich, 

 moist, light soil. On poorer soils it is much inferior to common rye 

 for winter grazing." 



Its nutritive value is high. Comparing the chemical analyses of 

 the grass with those of rye and oat fodder, it is found that it contains 



