ABSTRACTS OF BniETlNS OF THE AliHlCrUFRAL EXPElllMENT STATIONS IN THE 

 UNITED STATES FIIOM Jl'LY TO DECEMBEIi. 1889. 



P^RT I. 



ALABAMA. 



Agricultural Experiment Station of the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 



leg-e of Alabama. 



Ih'iHtrt incut of the ApririiJtiiral and Mechanical CoUaje of Alabama. 



Location, Auburn. Director, J. S. Newman. 



BULLETIN No. G (NEW SEKIES). JULY, 1889. 



Grasses of Alabama and their ciltivation, P, H. Mell, Ph. D. 

 (pp. 3-40), (illustrated). — This bulletin is the revised form of the 

 pamphlet on Wild Grasses, issued by the Alabama State Depart- 

 ment of Natural History and Geology in 1886. Accounts of grasses 

 analyzed since the publication of the first edition are added. The 

 illustrations consist of twenty-nine plates taken from the Annual 

 Reports of the United States Department of Agriculture. This is 

 intended as the first of a series of station jjublications on the forage 

 plants growing wild in Alabama, which include a large proportion 

 of the wild species found in the United States east of the Mississippi 

 River. *' Not half of these have been tested to determine their value 

 for stock food." 



The bulletin also contains directions for manuring grass lands, 

 formulas for mixtures of grasses, hints as to economical methods in 

 making and feeding hay. definitions of botanical terms, and direc- 

 tions for collecting and preserving grasses. Then follows a list of the 

 grasses and forage plants of the State, with scientific and common 

 names, time of blooming, and place of growth: and descriptions of 

 thirty-eight of the more important species with anal3'ses of green 

 grass or hay of a considerable number, and practical suggestions as to 

 cultivation and value. The following sjDecies are spoken of as par- 

 ticularly desirable foi- field culture or for hay in that section: 

 Meadow oat-grass or tall oat-gra.ss (Arrhenatheriim avenaceum) ; 

 Bermuda grass iCynodon dactijlon) ; yard-grass, croAV-foot or crab- 

 grass {EJeusine indica) ; Japan clover {Lespedeza striata) ; Texas 

 millet {Panicum texanwn) ; prolific panic grass or sprouting crab- 

 grass {Panicum proliferum) . 



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