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Texas and other seruiarid sections. All stock eat it ravenously, as it is very 

 sweet. Tlie inclosed pictures will give you some idea of it, although it must be 

 seen to be fully appreciated. 



In a supplementary rejDort dated January 20, 1913, he added : 



In answer to your letter will infoi'm you that the second growth of Sudan 

 grass attainetl a height of at least an average of G feet. I cut and stored the 

 hay from the first cutting, hoping to get the seed thrashetl out, but did not suc- 

 ceed in doing so. I did not cut the second growth, but am sure it was as heavy as 

 the first crop. I am sorry I can not give you more definite information as re- 

 gards the amount of hay and seed produced, but have been very much " under the 

 weather " for some months and so things have gone slack. Of one thing I am 

 certain — there is no better forage plant for this section. It is a wonderful pro 

 ducer, very drought resistant, makes a most i-emarkably sweet-smelling hay 

 with a very difl:"erent odor from Johnson-grass hay, and will never become a 

 pest. 



Mr. J. R. Stegall, of Detroit, Tex., Avrote concerning his 1912 expe- 

 rience as follows : 



I sowed the Sudan seed that you sent me, half in bottom on strong land and 

 the other half on sandy, thin land. The results on both are most wonderful. 

 I prepared a good seed bed by breaking deep and then harrowed both ways. 

 I sowed seed April 25, making the first cutting May 20. I have cut the 

 twentieth of every summer month, June, July, and August. I am cutting to-day 

 (August 20, 1912). The yield is larger every cutting, as it stools out' from 

 the root. The piece in the bottom I sowed by the side of a small spot of 

 Johnson grass. I have cut the Johnson grass twice and the Sudan grass four 

 times. Stock eat Sudan grass hay with more relish than Johnson grass hay, 

 as the texture is not so coarse. This Sudan grass is the most wonderful thing 

 in the way of hay I ever saw. I have had a great many applications for seed, 

 but I have none to sell. 



In a postscript Mr. Stegall added : 



I neglected to mention we have had quite a long, dry time; no rainfall. Not 

 all the crops were damaged. The Sudan grass has resisted the drought, the 

 grass on the bottom land standing better than that on the sandy soil. 



In a subsequent report additional data were given as follows : 



You sent me 2 poinids of seed. I sowed it on one-eighth of an acre. I got 

 400 pounds of nice, cured hay at each cutting. Some of my neighbors told me 

 I sowed it too thick, but for cutting in milk I am satisfied I sowed it about 

 right. When I turnetl my cattle, hogs, and horses in the field, I had goobers, 

 peas, corn, and crab-grass, but they would not eat any of these until the Sudan 

 grass was completely consuuied. Stock love it better than anything else they 

 can get to eat. 



I had a small patch of Johnson grass right by the side of the seed I sowed 

 in the bottom. I cut the Johnson grass twice and the Sudan grass five times. 

 The weather was dry and I got a nice cure every time I cut. Stock would eat 

 the Sudan grass before they would the Johnson grass. 



Mr. W. W. Price, Mount Pleasant, Tex., recorded his experience as 

 follows : 



On April 3 I sowed 5 pounds of Sudan-grass seed on one-half of an acre of 

 light, sandy land. The grass reached a height of 7 feet and matured 64 days 

 from the date sown, the cutting yielding 1| tons of hay. 

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