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clover, and make in the cock. The stalk is nearly 

 solid and the hay very heavy ; and if made in this 

 way will be as green as grass, and a horse will want 

 little grain for ordinary farm work. 1 only feed 

 grain in the spring when doing heavy plowing. Give 

 your horses all they will eat of it and they will fat 

 with decent usage. It is better to make it by hand, 

 Ibut on a good soil you will tumble up a big cock in 

 a small space. One advantage in raising Hungarian 

 grass is the lateness it may be sown, for a farmer 

 finding in June that his meadows are light, or his 

 €orn a failure, can sow Hungarian grass and make 

 up the deliciency. 



Many make a mistake in seeding too soon ; the 

 crop will be more or less injured by weeds, which 

 seem to grow under all circumstances. It needs but 

 seventy days of reasonably good weather to make a 

 crop of hay from this grass. 



Care should be taken in the curing of this grass 

 for hay. If it musts, or is exposed to the rains 

 much after being cut, it is almost worthless. 



Finding my hay crop, in consequence of the dry 

 vreather. which prevailed during the month of May, 

 and up to the 8tli of June, was likely to be a short 

 one, I sowed part of a field with Hungarian grass 

 seed the 9th of June. It ^ has succeeded so far, 

 beyond my expectations, notwithstanding the preva- 

 lence of dry weather, w^hich w^e have experienced 

 since that time, its grow^th has been steady and 

 rapid, and from present appearances will be ready 

 to be cut and be cured for hay by the lOtli of August. 

 I sowed at the rate of half a bushel, or 16 quarts' per 

 acre, but took pains to sow evenly, perhaps 20 quarts 

 for ordinary sowing would be required. 



