14 SUDAN GRASS. 



September 16. The nctual amount of seed harvested from the three rows was 

 1S.5 pounds, which is at the rate of 678 pounds per acre. 



June 12, two rows. 36 inches apart, each S rods lon^. were planted. One 

 vow was cut for hay September 16, when 6^ feet higli, but it should have been 

 cut earlier. The yield of this row was 110.5 pounds, or at tlie rate of 6.08 

 ions per acre. The second row was left for see<l, but did not fully mature 

 when killed by frost September 18, only 2 i)ounds of mature .seed being secured. 



OREGON. 



Eegarding a test at the cereal station, Moro, Oreg., in 1912, Mr. 



D. E. Stephens gave his experience as follows : 



Of the several grasses planted this spring at this station, the Sudan grass is 

 the only one that gave good results. It was planted in rows .3A feet apart. 

 An excellent stand resulted and it grew vigorously to a height of 4* feet. It 

 was cut for hay on September 26 and yielded at the rate of l.OS tons per acre. 

 Although we have but this one year's results witli this grass, it is the most 

 I)romising one we have tried, with the possible exception of slender wheat- 

 grass. So far as moisture is concerned, this season was a favorable one, but 

 if this grass can stand the usual dry weather of this locality there is a future 

 for it here. 



MINNESOTA. 



At the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Prof. A. C. 

 Arny reported that Sudan grass was planted in two short rows, one 

 S feet long, the other G, the rows 2 feet apart. 



It was apparently sown thicker than it need be, for the grass is very thick 

 in the rows and grew to an average height of 58 inches. There is a great 

 abundance of leaves at the bottom. The stems are not very coarse and it 

 looks as though the grass might make a very good quality of hay. The cattle 

 seem to like it green and there is apparently no reason why they should not 

 like it cured. It is altogether probable that, cutting the crop at the right time 

 after planting it early in the season, two crops could be secured. The new 

 growth at the base of the roots makes me think that this would probably be 

 the way it would turn out. 



I am not sure whether the grass will mature seed this fall or not. It 

 depends altogether on how the frost holds off. 



A few of the seeds were planted much thinner and they have reached a 

 height of over 100 inches, being higher than any of our sorghum plants. Sown 

 thin this way the stalk is quite coarse and it would not do for hay ; that, of 

 course, is not the way it is meant to be grown. 



AVISCONSIN. 



From the Wisconsin Agricuhural Experiment Station, Prof. A. L. 



Stone wrote as follows : 



The Sudan grass sent us last spring for trial came a little too late to give 

 us an opportunity to get in as large a ])lat of it as we would have liked to do. 

 We put in only a single I'ow of the grass, this row being about 60 feet long. 

 The grass came on very nicely aiid headed out in fine shape. It will be im- 

 possible under the circumstances to make any estimate of the yield per acre, 

 but from its ajipearance I am of the ojiinion this grass might prove of value 

 in some sections of the country and jmssibly right here in "Wi.sconsin, all hough 

 it would need some experimentation to delcirmine whether it can compete with 

 timothy. I like the appearance of the grass. 

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