1884.] QUESTIONS. 285 



Mr. Gold. Under certain conditions, we can get three 

 tons of Hungarian grass to the acre, cure it and put it in our 

 barns as cheaply as we can get an acre of hay grown upon 

 our fields; but under other conditions, the Hungarian grass 

 will be an entire failure. Hungarian grass requires well- 

 tilled, finely-pulverized, warm soil, free from weeds and other 

 obstructions, and to be sown late in June, after the weather 

 gets warm, and then it will make a rapid and satisfactory 

 growth, from a ton and a half to three tons per acre, that can 

 be cut with a mowing machine and cured as readily as hay, 

 and it will make hay of the most nutritious kind for animals. 



Mr. Webb. I will say one word in regard to that. If a 

 man finds that he is going to be short of hay and wants to 

 help himself out, he can do as I did last spring : turn over a 

 piece of ground and sow Hungarian grass. I have raised 

 three crops the past season on the same ground, sowing my 

 oats early in April, manuring thoroughly, cutting the oats 

 as soon as the heads commence to show ; then turn the 

 stubble over immediately and sow it to Hungarian grass, 

 putting on another coat of special fertilizers ; the Hungarian 

 grass will mature sufficiently early so that you can cut that 

 and sow a crop of turnips. In that way you can get a large 

 quantity of first-class food for your stock. With a long 

 season, you can get perhaps more food by a crop of sowed 

 corn, dried well, and which will help to fill up. 



Mr. Chamberlain. I would like to endorse what the 

 Secretary has said respecting the nutritive value of Hun- 

 garian hay. I regard it as one of the most nutritious of the 

 plants that we can cultivate. I think it discounts the best 

 English hay that we can raise or make, and it grows very 

 quick. Mr. Webb told me that he harvested his Hungarian 

 crop in forty-two days from the time he sowed it. This can 

 be done at any period after the ground gets sufficiently warm 

 to give it a quick and luxuriant growth. I think Mr. Webb's 

 suggestion in regard to sowing oats a very good one, because 

 we can get the oats off about the time the ground gets 

 sufficiently warm to put in our Hungarian grass. It is a 



