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A Marvelous 
, New Forage Grass 
This new variety is a development resulting from 
several years breeding work by the Texas Agricul- 
tural Experiment Station in cooperation with Bureau of Plant Indus- 
try, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. In 1944 was the firsttime enough seed was 
available to plant acreage of Sweet Sudan to produce seed in commercial - 
quantities The supply for planting 1946 crop is still limited. 
It’s Sweet, Juicy and More Palatable 
When Sweet Sudan is planted side by side with Common Sudan and 
other forage crops, cattle will always eat the Sweet Sudan first. A farmer 
in the southwest has the following te say about Sweet Sudan: ‘‘ About 
‘ eattle or sheep preferring the Sweet Sudan Grass to Common Sudan, has 
certainly been borne out by our experience. You just can’t keep them 
i away from it where the option is given them.’* Another farmer said from 
his experience, he would rather pay fifteen cents per pound for Sweet 
= Sudan Seed than have Common Sudan Seed as a gift, ais 
Livestock Prefer It to Alfalfa 
| This may sound like sales talk, but anyone who has grown this wonder- 
| ful crop will verify this statement. Here is what another large farmer 
} and livestock raiser in the southwest says: ‘‘The results from the eighty 
, acres of Sweet Sudan I planted this May and June, are very surprising to 
me. My dairy cattle have invariably eaten Sweet Sudan into the dirt 
before touching the Alfalfa or any of the grasses and clovers in the per- 
manent pastures. My herdsman reports an immediate increase in milk vi 
flow when he moved cows from Alfalfa to Sweet Sudan.’ This informa- 
tion convinces us it will make our customers money. . 
’ : 
More Livestock on Less Acres 
Sweet Sudan has more and broader leaves; heavier and taller stalks and 
stools much heavier than Common Sudan., Is just a little later and coarser 
than Common Sudan; thereby, producing more growth and remaining 
green and growing longer than the Common. This means more grazing. ° 
Sweet Sudan produces a better quality of hay and the value is two to 
three times greater than Common. As it is more juicy, sweet and pal- 
atable it does not need to produce more feed. Because of its sweetness, 
which livestock relish, they eat if faster and consume more of it in a 
shorter period. This increases both milk and meat production. : 

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- A Great Hay and Pasture Crop 
One farmer reports he has tc put a larger number of cows on smaller acreaga in _—i| 
order to hold it down. Sweet Sudan stands lots of dry weather. When other grasses ee 
are fading out, it keeps coming right dlong. Here is what a farmer says, who is run- . 
ning some 1500 acres in the southwest: ‘‘Sweet Sudan is excellent hay, bundled, loose _——| 
or baled. I have 80 or 90 tons which were bundled for seed production just.befons aaa a“ a 

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save money. 
It has much Sucrose (Sugar) and it apparently isn’t going tt dry out.” This will af- ee 
» ford lots of good palatable hay. Sow Sweet Sudan 15 to 2& Ibs. pez acre,  —-’ ae a 
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