252 FORAGE PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE 



by agriculturists. It is said to remain green when all 

 other grasses are dried up, and several successive cuttings, 

 aggregating 13 tons (green feed) an acre, were obtained 



at the Wollongar 

 Experiment Station 

 the season following 

 the seeding. In the 

 Tweed district pas- 

 palum pasture is said 

 to support one dairy 

 cow to the acre the 

 year round. 



In the United States 

 paspalum is adapted 

 to practically the same 

 area as the cotton 

 plant, excepting that 

 it does not spread 

 west of the humid 

 eastern portion of 

 Texas. While it oc- 

 curs on all types of 

 soil it is most abun- 

 dant on rich black soils 

 and bottom lands. 



Paspalum has given 

 fair results under irri- 

 gation in the San 



Joaquin Valley, California, but does not yield heavily 

 enough to warrant cultivation. 



It produces seed freely, but it ripens unevenly and 

 shatters easily. In the Southern States the flowers are 

 nearly always affected by a black fungus and apparently 



FIG. 27. Paspalum dilatotum. a, show- 

 ing arrangement of spikelcts ; b, a single 

 spikelet ; c and d, floret. 



