Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1875 — Japanese Grass. [ARTICLE]

Japanese Grass.

This valuable ; forage plant is something like the well known Hungarian Grass or Millet in habit and appeapance, but much larger and more prolific. Indeed, on account of the large size of the grain and because of its remarkably nutrieious qualities for stock it has been called Japanese Wheat. The subscriber has grown it for three years, starting in 1872 with only one head of seed. Have grown seven and one-halt bushels of seed from one pint sown, on a patch of ten square rods, or the sixteenth part of an acre. The first season it yielded at the rate of nine and one-half tons of hay to the acre, and the second season at the rate of eight tons per acre. The heads grow twelve to fourteen inches long, and an inch and a half in diameter at the base. Sample packages, containing one quart of this valuable grass seed, will be sold for $1; the purchaser to give bond not to sell any seed for five years at a less price than Si

per quart.

JOHN B. CARR

Pilot Grove, Newton Co., Inch