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SEED-TIME AOT §§A1¥£ST, 
The Coming- Grass. 
BY HERBERT POST. 
No & raftS has for years, been brought 
befoie the public, which has created the 
inteiest, that surrounds the Johnson Grass, 
{Sorghum Halapense.) While it is not a 
new grass, having been on our lands for 
over forty years, It has only until recently- 
been introdued to the public. Southern 
planters and laboiers have been taught that 
all grass was to them an enein}', to be fought 
with great persistence, as it interfered with 
the raising ot cotton and corn. But under 
the new regime, they are learning that 
grass is not to be despised and now rec¬ 
ognize a friend in what was once an eneim . 
I have been engaged for upwards of six 
years past in dealing in the seed of this 
grass and have shipped it to almost every 
state in the Union from Texas to Oregon- 
Trials in the Rural grounds near New York 
have proved that it is perfectly hardy in 
the North and the owners advise its friends 
to laise it -hoping that it will prove a great 
acquisition.” Its yield varies with the lat¬ 
itude. In Texas near SanAntonio, The 
1'exas Stockman says, “a party cut it five 
times getting over nine tons of hay per 
acre, subsequently the same paper says, 
“he has §old 600 tons of hay in the San¬ 
Antonio market cut from 80 acres of land.” 
O. S Newell of Kinney Co., Texas (in 
the same paper) says, ‘‘cut nine crops, each 
cutting reaching the height of four feet.” 
In the northern states the same number of 
cuttings could not be obtained, but with 
fertilizing a large crop could be grown, 
exceeding the best timothy or clover. 
In Kansas during the cold winter of 
1880—1, when the ground was frozen three 
feet deep with frequent freezings and thaw¬ 
ings, this grass came out all right in the 
spring. As a grass for ensilage it has no 
equal. Being of the corn family, ( Sorghum) 
it is a rapid grower, succulent, full of sac¬ 
charine juices, very nutritious, leafy with 
abundant supply of forage, long lived peren¬ 
nial, with root stalks which are an ex¬ 
cellent food for swine, with abundance of 
seeds which make the best of hay, it seems 
to be the very acme of grasses. Unlike 
timothy, it does not exhaust t^e ground, 
but after two or three years the ground 
becomes i-o filled with roots that a contin¬ 
ual d< cay is going on. and plowing up once 
in three years gives it all the cultivation 
necessary. 
As a grass for ensilage it will produce in 
winter the same golden color for butter 
that it does in June. 
This grass is recommended by all who 
use it and many are yearly adding to their 
acreage of it, showing their belief in its 
value It comes early in the spring, grow¬ 
ing until cut down by frosts in the fall, 
standing the drought better than any grass 
gro * n. so much so that it has been ad¬ 
vertised as ‘‘drought proof grass”. Its 
popularity is shown by the largely in¬ 
creased orders, from year to year, by seeds¬ 
men, the most of whom I supply. While 
the crop of 1884 lasts, I can supply seed, 
but the spring demand soon exhausts the 
stock at advanced prices. It can be bought 
usually at its lowest price from May to 
July, after that the demand advances prices. 
for Hatching from P. Rooks. White 
— Leghorns and Pekin Ducks, $ 1.00 
per 13. G E O. F, MILLE R, Justu s. Lack’a Co., p" 
Plymouth Rocks exclusively, 
»1. oO per setting. Sond for circular* 
Orvillk D. Bklding. Middletown, N.Y. 
Mention Seed-Time and Harvest. 
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MfHITE: FIELD CORN. Ermann’s Prolific, 
L-" in 90 to 200 bushels per acre: pkts. br 
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bu- $8.00. HERMAN A. CLA*RK, Racine^Ohio. 
PAT&TfSf^ o Ian ,T- vari<? ties, Choice New 
*• 11 M ■L**® 1 Seedlings, extra fine und great 
yielders. No equals for beauty or earliness now 
known. Also Rose s Sweet Corn, for flavor tender¬ 
ness, juicy, sweet and sugary, best in the world: ears 
large as Stowell s; fit for the table GO to 65 days from 
planting. Also Welcome Oats and many new varie- 
ties of gram not before ofiered. Catologue free. 
ALFRED ROSE, Penn Y«n, N. Y. 
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