HAY AND PASTURE PLANTS RECOMMENDED. pall 
Kafir corn and milo maize have been grown in many neighborhoods 
through central Texas during the past six or seven years, and no tests 
were deemed necessary as part of the station work to determine their 
value as stock feed, but tests were made with the special view to 
determining whether the cured products could be baled successfully 
and advantageously. Seeds of both, some of them gotten from the 
Agrostologist and others in the open market, were sown in the grass 
garden in 1899 at the same dates the seeds of Jerusalem corn were 
sown. Some of the drills of each, where the stalks stood close 
together, were cut, cured, and baled. No difficulty was experienced 
in the efforts to cure. them in shocks, but it was not practicable to 
make the bales very compact; hence the hay dried out considerably. 
The varieties of Kafir corn grown in the grass garden were the red 
and the black-hulled white. The former was a little in advance of the 
latter in maturing seeds, but the difference was trifling. Varieties of 
the sorghums mentioned above may be planted from April to July in 
central Texas, and under normal conditions will give two to three 
cuttings, and mature seeds during September. 
Of the several varieties of the saccharine sorghums tested in the 
grass garden all were found to be fairly well adapted to the climatic 
and soil conditions of that section. No very material differences were 
noticeable in them. The tests were not made except to determine 
whether sorghum hay could be baled to advantage and be given a 
commercial value by putting it in convenient shape for shipping. The 
amber and orange are about the only varieties grown in central Texas, 
the former being somewhat earlier, the latter being regarded as about 
the best all-around cane. 
In this connection it may be well to state that in the immediate 
vicinity of the grass garden several rows of corn were planted to 
determine the drought-resisting qualities of corn as compared with 
sorghum. ‘The results of that test were very definite. The sorghums 
not only lived through the drought mentioned, but matured seeds satis- 
factorily. The corn, on the other hand, gave way under the influence 
of the hot winds and scant moisture and never revived. As to the 
value of the sorghums for forage purposes nothing need be stated in 
this connection beyond the general conclusions that they give more 
and better fodder than corn, and their matured seeds are very nearly 
as valuable as corn for purposes of sustaining and fattening stock. 
Texas Biur Grass (Poa arachnifera). 
This has been a well known and highly valued grass during many 
vears past in many counties east and south of central Texas, but only 
during the past two or three years has it made its appearance as far 
north and west as Taylor County. In 1900 it was noticed by the writer 
growing in spots in several places in the county, and specimens taken 
