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rain. The young plants are easily killed by drought or frost, and for 

 this reason a good catch is more certain on an unbroken sod than on 

 well-prepared laud. Still, there is believed to be less difficulty in ob- 

 taining a catch with this than with some other forage plants. A good 

 method of seeding is to sow in March at the rate of one-half bushel per 

 acre, on small grain sown the previous autumn or winter. 



For hay it should be cut early, before it becomes woody. It is cured 

 in the same manner as clover, and the hay is apparently relished by 

 all kinds of stock. There is some complaint that stock do not at first 

 eat it readily while growing, and that horses and mules are liable to be 

 salivated if allowed to eat it freely while luxuriant. In both these re- 

 spects, however, it probably differs little from the ordinary clovers. 

 No cases have been reported of bloat or hoven being caused by it. 



E. L. Allen, Brownsville, Hay wood County, Tenn. : 



Lespedeza striata (Japan clover) grows luxuriantly, is very hardy, and is the best 

 pasture we have iu summer. It is especially adapted to poor upland, covering the 

 earth, eradicating weeds and sedge grass, preventing land from washing, and in- 

 creasing its fertility. It grows well in the open timber. Our special need has been 

 a grass to withstand the heats of summer and afford pastures for the early fall. Japan 

 clover has met this requirement. 



tl. H. Lovelace, Como, Henry County, Tenn.: 



Japan clover made its appearance here three or four years ago, and now occupies 

 nearly all lands that have been exhausted and turned out, growing on land too poor 

 to grow any other plant. In fact, it will grow in a red gully ; hence it is the best 

 thing to prevent washing I ever saw, besides all kinds of stock are fond of it; and 

 grow fat on it. 



B. D. Baugh, State statistical agent, Carrollton, Miss. : 



Japan clover is the most wide-spread of the natural forage plants of this State. It 

 grows luxuriantly on any kind of soil except light prairie ash-laud. It is easily cured, 

 makes hay of excellent quality, and furnishes more than half of the long forage of 

 this State. It grows well on upland, but best on bottom-land and alluvial soil, 

 where it frequently attains a height of 30 inches. If intended for hay it should be 

 mowed when the first bloom appears, and be '' browsed " or stacked after six or eight 

 hours' exposure to the sun. It affords good pasture from the 1st of May until killed 

 by frost, about the middle of November. 



George Echols, Lorigview. Gregg County, northeastern Texas : 



It appeared here four years ago, and it now has possession of all the open idle land. 

 It seeds very abundantly, and grows so densely that it forms a mat. It flourishes 

 with Bermuda grass, so that the hay mowed is about half and half. 



Dr. D. H. Brodnax, statistical correspondent, Broduax, Morehouse 

 Parish, La. : 



Lespedeza was first noticed here about 1865. It is supposed to have been introduced 

 in the cavalry hay fed the horses of the Federal cavalry, which occupied this parish 

 for a short time. It has since covered nearly the whole parish. It is not cultivated? 

 but is rapidly rooting out nearly every other grass in the parish. It kills our bitter- 

 weed (dog fennel), Bermuda grass, and everything else. It is a splendid forage crop, 

 and excellent for grazing until frosts destroy it. 



