CHAPTER IX 
HUNGARIAN 
UNGARIAN is another one of the most val- 
H uable and less appreciated crops of the farm. 
For feeding purposes, for both cattle and 
horses, I rank it above clover or timothy hay. It is 
said to injure horses. A greater fallacy never existed. 
Cut just when the seed has formed, no injury results 
from feeding in any quantity. I have fed it for years 
to the best of horses, and they relished it and thrived upon 
it. It is the quickest and cheapest hay crop grown. It 
can be sown in July after a wheat, oats or pea crop 
has been removed, and in eight weeks or less a crop of 
hay can be gathered making from two to four tons to 
the acre, and after the removal of a crop of hungarian the 
land can be seeded to rye or wheat. 
I have heard it said that it is a soil robber. I have 
not found it so. 
A ton of hungarian extracts from the soil but eight 
pounds of nitrogen and eight pounds of potash more 
than a ton of green clover extracts from the soil. 
For loosening up the soil nothing equals it. 
In the summer of 1909 I had a field in corn, one-half 
of which the previous season had been in hungarian 
for hay, and there was no difference in the yield of corn, 
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