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sharp, steel-toothed harrows, and sow over the stubble a peck of red 
clover per acre, which, with volunteer vetches, comes off about the 
middle of May. The second yield of clover is uniformly eaten up by 
erasshoppers. The tap root remains to fertilize the then coming 
yuinea grass, which should be cut from two to three feet high. * * * 
On such land as mine, it will afford three or four cuttings if the sea- 
son is propitious. I use an average of five tons of gypsum soon after 
the first cutting, and about the same quantity of the best commercial 
fertilizers in March and April. * * * The grass, which is cut 
before noon, is put up with horse sulky rakes, in cocks, before sun- 
down.”’ 
Mr. Moore’s income from this field was from seven thousand to ten 
thousand dollars a year. 
Mr. Goelsel, of Mobile, says: ‘“‘It is undoubtedly the most profit- 
able soiling plant yet introduced, and also promises to be the plant for 
our Southern hay stacks, provided it can be cut every three or four 
weeks.”’ 2 
Note.—Recognizing all the above, I would say, that great care must 
be taken not to sow this grass near cultivated lands. If done, it 
should not be allowed to go to seed, as the wind will blow them off 
from the stalks, and when it gets amongst cane or other crops, it 
causes a great deal of trouble. It is almost impossible to get it out of 
the land. 
RESCUE GRASS. 
(Ceratochloa australis or Bromus Schraderi.) 
Itisan annual winter grass. It varies in the time of starting growth. 
I have seen it ready for mowing the first of October and furnish fre- 
quent cuttings till April. Again, it may not start before January, nor 
be ready to cut till February. This depends upon the moisture and 
depression of temperature. When once started, its growth after the 
successive cuttings or grazings is very rapid. It is tender, very sweet, 
and stock eat it greedily. It makes also a good hay. It produces an 
immense quantity of leaves. On loose soil some of it may be pulled 
out by animals grazing it. I have seen it bloom as.early as November 
when the season has favored and no grazing or cutting were permitted. 
Oftener it makes little start before January. But whether late or early 
starting, it may be grazed or mowed frequently, until April, it still will 
mature seed. It has become naturalized in limited portions of Texas, 
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and perhaps other States. It is a 
very pretty grass in all its stages; but especially when the culms two 
or three feet high are gracefully bending with the weight of the dif- 
fuse panicle with its many pedicelled, flattened spikelets, each an inch 
or more long and with twelve to sixteen flowers. 
I would not, however, advise sowing this grass on poor land with 
the expectation of getting aremunerative return.. It tillers abundantly 
under favorable conditions. 
