SUDAN i;hass. 
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fourth being cow peas. This is ;ii the rate of US tons of the mixture 
per acre. 
In an adjacenl one t « * > » 1 1 » acre plat Johnson grass and cowpeas were 
Beeded at the same rate; thai i-. 2 pounds of Johnson grass and 3 
pounds of Earl) Black cowpeas in place of Sudan grass i Eg. ."> ) . The 
yield <»f the mixture was 561 pounds of air-drj hay, or 2.8 tons per 
acre. 
\ imilar mixture of Sudan grass and Arlington soy beans, a twin 
ing variety, was sown the -a me date, using 3 pounds <>f soy beans and 
2 pounds <>!' Sudan grass. Aboul one-fourth of the mixture was aoy 
beans, which twined aboul the grass to :i height of I to 6 feet. When 
PlO. 
Plata ;ii Irllngton r i ■ \ 
eowpeaa (right) and Johnson grass ai ft). 
cut on September 6 the Sudan grass was in bloom ;iii«l the soy-bean 
pods were about half grown. 
This mixture cured more readily than the cowpea mixture and was 
superior in physical quality. The yield was 888 pounds of cured haj . 
or at the rate of 1. 1 Ion- per acre. 
Figure 6 -how- a -tan. I of Tu iii- L r ra-- planted in rows a i Arlington 
Farm for comparison with tin- Sudan grass shown in figure 3. 
TESTS AT MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 
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At the San Antonio (Tex.) Field Station Mr. S. II. Hastings 
tested Sudan grass :n l'.'Il and 1912 and reported a- follow-: 
Prom the growth of the plat tested in 191] this appears to he the mosl prom- 
ising grass that has heen grown at the experiment farm. Two plats w< 
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