SUDAN 0BA88. 1 '.I 
Texas and other semlnrld sections All stock '--it it ravenously, .1^ ii i- verj 
sweet The Inclosed pictures will give you - Idea of It, although ii uiusl \«- 
seen n> be fullj appra lated 
In -.\ supplementary reporl dated January 20, L913, he added: 
in answer to your letter will Inform you thai the m nd growth of Sudan 
■rasa attained a height of at lens) an average of feel l cul and stored the 
hay from the Bret cutting, hoping to get the Beed thrashed out, bul « l i • l nol su. 
ceed In doing so. I • l i « l nol cul the mi •■ »u, i growth, bul am Bure ii was a^ heavy as 
the Brsl crop. I am Borrj I can nol give you more definite Information aa re 
gards the amounl of haj and seed produced, bul have been < ery much " under the 
weather" for sunn- months and bo things have gone - Of one thing I am 
certain there Is no better forage plan) for 1 1 * i — section. It is a wonderful pro 
ducer, very drought resistant, makes a most reniarknblj sweet smelling ha] 
with a very different odor from Johnson-grass hay, and "ill never bee a 
pest. 
Mr. J. K. Stegall, of 1 tetroit, Tex., wrote concerning his 1912 expe- 
rience ;i- follows : 
I sowed the Sudan seed that you Bent me, half In bottom on Btrong land and 
the other half on sandy, thin land. The results on i><>tii are most wonderful. 
I prepared a good seed bed bj breaking deep and then narrowed both ways 
I sowed seed April 25, making the lirst cutting Maj -'" l have cut the 
twentieth of every summer month, June, July, and August. I am cutting to-day 
(August 20, 1912). The yield is larger everj cutting, as it stools out fi i 
the root The piece In the bottom l sowed by the Bide of a small boo! of 
Johnson grass l have cul the Johnson grass twice and the Sudan grass four 
times. Stock eat Sudan grass bay with more relish than .lidins.,11 grass hay, 
as the texture Is nol so coarse. This Sudan grass is the mosl wonderful thing 
in the way of hay I ever saw. i have bad a great many applications for seed, 
but I have nun,- to sell. 
In a postscript Mr. Stegall milled: 
I neglected to mention we have had Quite a long, dry time; no rainfall. Nol 
nil the crops were damaged. The Sudan grass has resisted the drought, the 
is i»n the bottom land standing betteT than that on the sand] soil. 
In a subsequent reporl additional data were given m- follows: 
Yon seni me 2 pounds of Beed. l sowed it on one-eighth of an acre. I got 
400 pounds of nice, enrol hay at each cutting. Son f my neighbors told me 
I sowed it too thick, bul for cutting In milk I am satisfied l Bowed It abonl 
right when l turned my cattle, bogs, and horses In the Held, I had goobers 
peas corn, and crab-grass, but they would nol eat any of these until the Sudan 
grass was completely consumed, stuck love it better than anything else they 
can gel to eat. 
I had a small patch of Johnson grass right by the side of the - I i sowed 
in the bottom. I cul the Johnson grass twice and the Sudan grass the times 
The weather was dry and I u'"t a nice cure every time I cut. Stock would eat 
the Sudan mass before they would the Johnson grass 
Mr. W. W. Price, Mounl Pleasant, Tex., recorded his experience as 
follows : 
On April o I sowed 5 pounds of Sudan-grass seed on one half of an acre of 
light sandy laud. The grass reached a height of T feel and matured 64 • 
from the date sown, the cutting yielding 1 1 tons of hay. 
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