H. G. Hastiiifrs Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia. • 
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The Sudan Grass 
/Ma This new grass was brought to the United States from 
\IlWi Egypt in It was first planted in an experimental 
way in Texas, then the seed distributed to various Experiment Sta- 
tions with remarkably successful results. We have grown it on the 
Hastings Farm in Middle Georgia for three years and it is certainly 
a wonder as a hay producer. We can best describe it by saying that 
it has all the good qualities of Johnson Grass with a lot more of its 
OAvn added, and while it looks like an extra tall-growing strain of 
Johnson Grass it has not a single bad quality of Johnson Grass such 
as the creeping underground root stocks. Sudan is an annual grass 
requiring reseeding every year. It can no more become a pest on your 
farm than can sorghum or cowpeas. Once killing frost comes it is 
dead and another seeding is necessary the next year. It easily crosses 
with sorghum and for that reason there is little pure or nearly pure 
seed of it, most of it having been grown near enough to sorghum to 
cross and be impure. With us, planted in rows for seed, it grew from 
6 to 7 feet high. Sown broadcast for hay crop growth was about 4 
feet high, furnishing two heavy cuttings, and had the seasons been 
favorable a third one would have been obtained. Four tons of dried 
hay per acre will not be an exceptional yield here in the Southeast. 
Easily cured and should be cut when first coming into bloom. Hay 
is much softer than Johnson Grass, stems being much more slender 
and leafy. In feeding value it ranks high in comparison with other 
hays and will go far in providing a much more satisfactory and easily 
handled cured hay than sorghum and peas. Sudan Grass is a wonder 
in its “stooling ouF’ qualities and we certainly expect to see the time 
come when it will supersede the different varieties of sorghum for 
hay and forage crops in the South. It is certainly far superior to 
them. For hay crop sow Sudan Grass broadcast at rate of 15 to 20 
pounds per acre. For growing a seed crop for your own future use 
plant thinly in rows 18 inches apart, using 5 to 6 pounds of seed per 
acre. Plant at least a small quantity of Sudan Grass this year as 
soon as danger from frost is past, for if you want a satisfactory hay 
plant for the Cotton Belt or even as far North as Ohio you can get 
nothing so productive. Be careful in buying Sndan Grass. Many 
samples we have seen contain Johnson Grass seed; others are Sudan- 
Sorghum crosses. Our seed is right. Price; % pound, 15 cents; 
pound, 40 cents; postpaid. Write for special prices on quantity lots 
when ready to buy. Special Sudan Grass Pamphlet Free on request. 
14'alian Dwa Recommended principally for fall plant- 
l&ClllalB iiig can also be planted in spring. 
/Mu When sown in the fall this variety matures very early, 
in latter May, and two or three more cuttings can be 
made that summer and fall. It is one of the quickest growing of all 
grasses, has very tender stalks and leaves, and in audition, abundant 
growth. This grass is an annual so never becomes a pest. Many 
plant it by itself, but it is also very valuable when planted in mix- 
tures. In Bermuda and other lawns it is valuable during the wunter. 
W’hen the other grasses are dead or dormant the Italian comes up and 
keeps your lawn green. Sow about 45 pounds per acre. Price: 30 
cents per pound, postpaid. Ten pound lots or over, not prepaid, about 
15 cents per pound. Write for quantity prices. 
English or Perennial Rye Grass (No. 535) 
English Rye is very similar to Italian Rye, grows off a little slower, 
but has the advantage of lasting for years. It makes very heavy leaf 
Sudan Grass Grown in Three-foot Rows on Hastings’ Farm 
growth so is fine for pasture or hay. This grass does w'ell in mixtures, and is wonderful for the lawn. Use it in Bermuda sod to keep 
the lawn green in the fall, winter and early spring, when the Bermuda is dormant. Being perennial it is especially adapted for_pastures 
and lawns and for hay by itself as well as in mixtures with grasses such as “Orchard” and “Tall Meadow Oat.” Sow about 45 pounds 
per acre. Price: Pound, postpaid, 30 cents. Ten pound lots or over, not prepaid, about 15 cents per pound. Write for quantity prices. 
The Whole World Needs Meat 
The evidence that the whole world needs meat confronts you every time you have to buy a pound of either fresh or cured meat at 
the butcher’s or at the general store. The price you have to pay tells the story. 
The meat situation from the view point of the buyer had begun to get bad before the war started. The war made it many times 
worse and it will continue to be bad for many a year after this war is over, that is bad for the meat buyer. 
We of the South have “killed” grass so many years that we have almost come to look on grass as an enemy to be fought at every 
turn instead of making use of it as the best friend that mankind has in Nature. 
Using the word “grass” in its broad sense of covering all hay and forage as well as pasturage we say to you that one great rea- 
son for the farming South’s comparative poverty is lack of grass and a proper use of same in meat animal production. 
The basis of meat is grass. It’s true that corn or other grain feeds are used in the fattening or “finishing off,” but the bone and 
muscle, the real animal, is based on and built up from grass. 
No agricultural section, no state, no county or parish, no farm can be a permanent, steady success without meat or dairy ani- 
mals. These animals cannot be kept and grown without grass on that farm. 
Kill crabgrass in the cotton field, but don’t look on good grazing and forage grasses and plants as enemies, but rather as friends 
to be cultivated and encouraged. 
The -world needs and will continue to need meat. Without grass there can be no meat. Treat grass right and you will have no 
meat to buy, but meat to sell to the world that needs it at a high price. 
