Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1883 — Hurrah Grass. [ARTICLE]

Hurrah Grass.

Several years ago, before the Wat, an Arkansas Congressman introduced to Jus agricultural oonstitunnt** Wew kind of grass, which he declared would form sod enough, to kill all the weeds and other growths of worthless nature. The Arkansaw Trawler says: The seed was sown quite extensively in the southern part of the State, and the farmers were much gratified to see that a very thick sod was at once formed. Next year, however, the grass began to take root in additional fields until it was found to be impossible to keep it down. The ' grass was soon discovered to be worthless for hay, and was in fact, only good for choking out all kinds of weeds, corn and cotton. This disastrous growth gained the name of “hurrah grass,” and is so known “even to this day.” It is said that large plantations have been abandoned on that account. In his trial sermon before a Boston church the preacher said: “The children of Israel were repeatedly on the point of manumission, but at the very last moment the Lord afflicted Pharaoh I with auricular ossification." He received a unanimous calk