76 HUNGARIAN GRASS. 



CHAPTER XXX. 



HUNGARIAN GRASS, BRISTLY FOX TAIL GRASS. 



Setaria Germanicum Generic C7iaracter. 



Spikelets altogether as in Panicum proper, and 

 awriless, but with the short peduncles produced be- 

 yond them in solitary or clustered bristles resem- 

 bling awns, (but not forming an involucre). Inflore- 

 scence a dense spiked panicle, or apparently a cylin- 

 drical spike. Annuals in cultivated or manured 

 grounds, with linear lanceolate flat leaves ; properly 

 to be regarded as merely a subgenns of panicum. 

 Name from Seta, a bristle. Gray. 



This grass has been introduced into this country 

 through the instrumentality of the U. S. Patent 

 offlce and is being cultivated throughout the country. 

 J. W. Beardsly, Fairfield Co., Connecticut in Co. 

 gentleman says of it. I have raised Hungarian 

 grass for several years, and have always been well 

 pleased with it Last summer (1873) I sowed eleven 

 acres, and am satisfied that I got twenty -five tons of 

 good, well made hay. Sow it after the ground gets 

 warm, say from the 1st to 15th of June, and it will 

 do to cut about the 15th of August. It grows in a 

 dry, warm soil. I never had any success in sowing- 

 grass seed with it. Sow from 20 to 25 quarts per 

 acre. Cut when in bloom. 



The Prairie Farmer says the trouble about Hun 

 garian grass is that it is not generally cut at the 

 proper time. I have raised it several years, and con. 

 sider it the very best hay for horses. They will fat 

 on it when on timothy they will grow poor. I sow 

 half a bushel per acre. Cut it when in bloom, before 

 any seed is formed ; wilt in the swath the same as 



