RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS. 23 



advantage of silage is that the benefits derived from feeding succulent 

 forage may be continued through the winter. As in the case of soil- 

 ing crops, silage is used chiefly in connection with dairy farming. By 

 far the best crop for the silo, where that crop can be raised, is green 

 corn. As it is not the purpose of this bulletin to deal particularly 

 with this subject, the reader is referred for further information to 

 Farmers 1 Bulletin No. 32 of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture and to other publications dealing with silos and silage. 



RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS WITH GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS 

 AT THE NEBRASKA EXPERIMENT STATION. 



GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS WHICH HAVE GIVEN SUCCESSFUL RESULTS 

 OR ARE WORTHY OF FURTHER TRIAL. 



Brome-Grass. 



An extended account of brome-grass (Bromus inermis) will be found 

 in Bulletin 61 of the Nebraska Station and also in Circular 18 of the 

 Division of Agrostology, United States Department of Agriculture. 

 This valuable grass has been tested over a wide area in the United 

 States, but it finds its best development in the region from Kansas 

 northward in the Great Plains, and west into Montana and eastern 

 Washington. It gives fair results east of this region, but in the 

 Eastern States is unable to compete with timotlry and bluegrass. In 

 the Southern States it has not given satisfactory results. 



Numerous trials of this grass have been made at the Nebraska Sta- 

 tion under varying conditions, both in combination with other grasses 

 and with alfalfa. In general the grass has given good results and has 

 shown that it is better adapted to the conditions obtaining in Nebraska 

 than any other of the cultivated forage grasses, with the exception of 

 meadow fescue and possibly orchard grass, both of which have given 

 good results.* 



A plot sown in the spring of 1897 (0.136 acre) yielded June 27, 1900, 

 580 pounds of hay, or at the rate of 2.32 tons per acre. On April 8, 

 1901, as the grass was turning green, the east half of the plot was 

 disked. During the remainder of the season there seemed to be no 

 difference between the disked and undisked portions. In 1903, the 

 plot yielded 1.32 tons of ha} T per acre on June 16. Other plots yielded 

 at about the same rate. 



One plot sown in April, 1899, and giving a cutting of hay June 27, 



1900, at the rate of 3.8 tons per acre (220 pounds on 16^ by 76 feet) 

 was treated October 5 with 300 pounds of well-rotted horse manure, 

 and the following spring with 10 pounds of sodium nitrate (Chile salt- 

 peter). On account of the drought no crop of hay was obtained in 



1901, but this plot was distinctly better in appearance than untreated 

 contiguous plots. June 16, 1903, the plot yielded 170 pounds of hay, 



