HENDERSON'S AMERICAN FARMER'S MANUAL. 



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Wonderful Haycrops 



AND LUXURIANT PASTURE 



Sn#£ DROUGHT STRICKEN DISTRICTS'^ 

 AWNLESS BROME GRASS. 



AW^IiESS • n^OffLB • GHASS. 



Botanical, Bromus inermis. German, Trespe de Hongrie. French, Brome de Hongrie. 



Perennial. Time of flowering, June to August. Height, 2 to i feet. 



When we introduced this grass five years ago, we strongly 

 recommended it for the South and West, believing that it would 

 prove a boon to the dry and hot sections of the United States. 



We have distributed large quantities, besides conducting ex- 

 periments with it ourselves, and the 

 unanimous verdict is, that the drought- 

 resisting qualities of this grass are mar- 

 velous, rendering it the most valuable 

 grass for dry and hot regions where other 

 grasses could not exist. 



It is a native of the black lands of Eussia, 

 but within recent years has been ex- 

 tensively grown in the dry and arid plains 

 of Austria and Hungary. The Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture believes that this 

 grass -will be the means of reclaiming 

 and turning to profitable account thou- 

 sands of acres now lying waste in the 

 West and South-west. 



It is thoroughly permanent, grows with 

 wonderful rapidity, produces heavy hay 

 crops and luxuriant pasture and will - stand 

 the longest drought of all forage plants, 

 and is equally good for cutting green, 

 pasturing or curing into hay. It will grow 

 on gravelly clay, fresh marl and even on 

 yellow sand, although, of course, on this it 

 does not produce so abundantly, but even 

 under these less favorable conditions it 

 gives a very large yield. 



All kinds of stock eat it greedily, and 

 the analyses made show that it is exceed- 

 ingly rich in flesh-forming ingredients, 

 much more so than Timothy. 



One advantage of this variety is that it 

 does not need so expensively prepared 

 ground as Alfalfa, and does not require 

 the attention and labor, such as cultivating 

 between the rows. 



It has been known to stand where even 

 Alfalfa has succumbed to the drought. It 

 can be sown in the fall or spring, and 

 should be sown by hand when there is a 

 slight breeze, so that the seeds as they fall 

 will be well divided. Sow (if alone) 35 lbs. 

 per acre ; if with Alfalfa (and they do well 

 together), 20 to 30 lbs. {See cut.) Price, 40 

 cts. per lb., $35.00 per 100 lbs. awnless brome grass. 



" I wish you could see our five acres of Bromus inermis to-day, 



as green as any blue grass field you ever saw in June. 



On this field I am now (and have been for a month) pasturing 



three cows (tethered) ; they thrive wonderfully and give a third 



more milk than when on the prairie pasture. 



Yet we have had no rain for six weeks. 



Bromus inermis will yield from one and a 



half to three tons per acre (two cuttings), 



and is equal or superior to Timothy for 



cattle or horses." 



De. Sewall, 



Sup't TJ. S. Gbass Expeeiment Station, 



Sept. 18th, 1891. Garden City, Kansas. 



"The Bromus inermis is the grass for 

 this western country ; it is the best out 

 of seven or eight hundred different 

 varieties tried on this Station. It is 

 green from the 15th of March until about 

 the 1st of November. You need not 

 hesitate to recommend it. I do not think 

 you could estimate it too highly." 



H. C. Beooks, 



In charge 



U. S. Gbass Expeeiment Station, 



Jan. 29th, 1892. Garden City, Kansas. 



(Bromus inermis.) 



" The Pasture Grass bought from you and 



planted last March, a year ago, is the finest 



grass I ever saw. I am quite sure we made 



more than ?>% tons per acre. It was planted 



on well-drained bottom land. I got three 



good cuttings; the first yielded 23 two- 



=i horse wagon loads, the second 18 two-horse 



=^_. wagon loads, and the third 20 two-horse 



^ wagon loads, from about six acres." 



Pat. Calhoun, 



Grassland, Ga. 



Sow, if alone, 

 35 lbs. per acre. 



PRICE, 



40 cts. lb.; $5.25 busb. of 14 lbs. 

 $35.oo per xoo lbs. 



If with Alfalfa, 

 sow 20 to 30 lbs. per acre. 



