186 On Guinea Grass, 



Wilkinson County, M. T, Oct. 10, 1812. 

 I have frequently examined your lot of Guinea grass 

 at Percyfield, and having for many years been in the 

 habit of viewing both timothy and clover meadows, in 

 the state of Virginia, where plaster of Paris has been 

 used, I have no hesitation in saying, that one acre of 

 Guinea grass will produce more than six times the 

 quantity I have ever known produced by an acre of 

 any other kind of grass. 



M. Bronaugh. 

 Dr. Brown. 



Percyfield^ Wilkinson Co, M, T. 

 October 15, 1812. 



I have for many years been accustomed to both ti- 

 mothy and clover meadows, and have frequently as- 

 sisted in cutting some of the best in the state of Ken- 

 tucky. At Percyfield, near Fort Adams, I cultivated 

 a lot of Guinea grass, somewhat less than a quarter of 

 an acre, from which I fed six or eight horses, during 

 the summer of 1812. I planted it the second week in 

 May, and began to cut it the 20th of June, and cut it 

 five times before the 15th of October, and obtained 

 from each plant (which occupied a square yard) about 

 sixty pounds of green grass. I have frequently ob- 

 served it to grow four inches in twenty four hours. 

 From the astonishing growth, and from the result of 

 all my experiments, I have no hesitation in saying, 

 that it will yield ten times as much grass as any timo- 

 thy or clover meadow I have ever seen. It is now (15th 



