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BULLETIN 1181, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
BERMUDA HAY. 
Bermuda grass is cut for hay in many of the river bottoms of 
Arkansas, Louisana, and adjacent States. (Fig. 26.) It is usually 
cut twice for hay each season and yields about a ton per acre at each 
cutting. One farmer, who raises little cotton but much corn and 
much Bermuda hay, says that as soon as his corn is laid by he turns 
his men and teams into his Bermuda meadow to make hay and that 
there is no conflict of labor between these crops. That is the reason 
why he raises much corn and little cotton. The first cutting of 
Bermuda would conflict with cotton work in July. 
NUMBER 
OP 
DAYS 
JAN FEB MAR APR 
MONTHS 
MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV OEC 
NUMBER 
OF 
DAYS 
45 
M/ 
\N L 
24 
ABC 
DA 
)R 
45 
40 
40 
35 
35 
30 
30 
28 
• 
25 
20 
20 
15 
15 
10 
10 
8 
1 
I 
1 
■ 
5 
28 
HO 
RSE 
24 
LA 
DA 
30R 
YS 
25 
20 
20 
IS 
15 
10 
10 
Q 
1 
1 
1 
■ 
5 
Fig. 26.— Labor on 10 acres of Ber- 
muda hay, Faulkner Count}'. 
Conditions. — Cut twice a year; 
first cutting in late June* and 
early July; second cutting in late 
August and early September; 
baled in field with horse baler; 
hauled to storage; yield, 1 ton per 
acre at each cutting. Bermuda 
grass makes a permanent 
meadow. The chart shows the 
average amount of work each 
month, but not the time of the 
month in which it occurs. 
Cut and 
rake into 
windrows 
Bale in 
field. 
Haul to 
storage. 
Total. 
10 
15 
10 
4 
4 
24 
24 
The work of harvesting Bermuda is not distributed with the 
evenness shown in the chart but as the dates shift from year to year, 
the total work is shown as covering the four months within whose 
limits the harvest occurs. 
