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Many farmers have kept both horses and horned stock through the winter 
with no other feed than Hungarian grass; the animals coming out of winter 
quarters in a superior condition. There need be no fears of poisoning, as inti- 
mated by one correspondent; the suggestion probably arose from injuries re- 
sulting from over-eating. 
This grass is now generally used and highly esteemed for forage, is used 
green or dry, is very productive, of quick growth, and flourishes well in dry 
soils. 
Flint, in his valuable work on grasses, says: “The Hungarian millet has 
been cultivated to some extent in this State (Massachusetts) from seed received 
through the Patent Office. It is an annual forage plant introduced into France 
in 1815, where its cultivation has become considerably extended. ‘It germi- 
nates readily, withstands the drought remarkably, remaining green even when 
other vegetation is parched up, and if its development is arrested by dry wea- 
ther, the least rain will restore it to vigor. It has numerous succulent leaves, 
which furnish an abundance of green fodder, very much relished by all kinds 
of stock. It flourishes in somewhat light and dry soils, though it attains its 
greatest luxuriance in soils of medium consistency, and well manured. It may 
be sown broadcast or in drills and cultivated precisely like other varieties of 
millet.” 
D. B. Dixon, of Muscatine, Iowa, after experimenting with this grass, remarks : 
“Tt is luxuriant in its growth, and produces hay of the finest quality. Horses 
and cattle eat it with avidity. A good crop of Hungarian grass is about three 
tons of hay and thirty bushels of seed to the acre, while it will often go beyond 
and seldom falls below this. The time for cutting is when the seed is nearly ripe, 
and the whole plant of a fine yellow color. It may be cured in the same manner 
as hay. As fodder, after threshing, it is fully equal to timothy; and when fed 
out with the seed in, as it generally should be, it is better than good sheaf oats.” 
William Story, of Jamestown, Fentress county, Tennessee, says: “I send 
you a full account of my experiments with the Hungarian grass. On the 10th 
of June, 1858, I received a pint of the seed from the Patent office, and on the 
11th I sowed it ona piece of rich clay land. I ploughed the ground with a 
shovel plough, which left the surface very rough and uneven. I then harrowed 
about one-fourth of the patch, leveling the surface very smooth. After sowing 
the seed on all the ground I again harrowed. The ground was very dry, and 
the weather continued hot for three weeks ; consequently it was some time before 
the seed came up. I was soon sorry I had not harrowed all the ground before 
sowing, for where I had omitted this operation but few seeds came up. Not- 
withstanding the extreme heat of the sun the grass grew astonishingly fast, 
branched out beyond all expectation, and grew about waist high by the first of 
August. It was headed out like millet, though seeming more vigorous and 
hardy. By the 10th of August the heads, which were from one to six inches in 
length, were all turned to a golden-yellow color. I cut and threshed off the 
seed, and had sixty-three pints from the one pint of seed sown. I am confident 
that not more than half the seed came up, and consequently the sixty-three 
pints were the product of half a pint of seed. In Tennessee it should be sown 
about the first week in May, on clear and loose ground, harrowed smooth before 
and after sowing. Que bushel of seed will, I think, sow three acres. I recom- 
mend the Hungarian grass to be the best and most nutritious of all grasses, and 
shall rejoice when our State shall be well supplied with it.” 
THE Wart SCARCITY. 
Both farmers and consumers may well deprecate the unprincipled operations 
of speculators, and fear the effect of their combinations and perversions of facts. 
