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‘““My meadow consists of one hundred acres of alluvial land, near 
Aueousta. «> * * In winter I employ but four men, who: are 
enough to work my packing-press; in summer, when harvesting, 
double that number. In autumn I usually searify both ways with 
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 
grasshoppers. The tap root remains to fertilize the then coming 
Guinea 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 season 
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 fer- 
tilizers, 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 profitable 
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.”’ 
Note.—Recognizing all the above, I would say, that great care must 
be taken not to sow this grass near cultivated lands. Ifdone, 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. 
(€eratochloa australis or Bromus Schraderi.) 
It isanannual winter grass. It variesin 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 had favored it,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 ssed. 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 ; and especially so when the culms,two 
or three feet high, are gracefully bending with the weight of the diffuse 
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 aremunerativereturn. Ittillersabundantly 
under favorable conditions. 
