Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1877 — Hungarian Grass. [ARTICLE]

Hungarian Grass.

The Massachusetts Pfounn&n, in recommending, to sow for a stock of dairy cow 9, what is commonly known as Hungarian grass, says: “The great advantage of this crop is that it can be sowp late, after the chief hurry of the spring work is over, and at a time when we can form a tolerably accurate judgment of the result of the hay crop. Hungarian may be sown as late as the middle of June, and we have known many cases where it has given a splendid crop sown after the first of July. And although we would not advise putting off the sowing till July, if anything happens to prevent sowing by the fifteenth or twentieth of June we should rather try it then than to give it up altogether “To cut and feed out ’green from day to day as it is wanted, Hungarian is an admirable acquisition to our forage plants, and we are glad to see it more and more appreciated, as it is, from year to year. It needs warm mellow land to do its best, and if it ean have the advantage of a fair top-dressing at the time the seed is sown, it will start and grow rapidly. If not all wanted to cut and feed out green it can be readily cured into good hay. We

have tried it on light plain land of only medium quality, land that had run out so as to produce but little over half a ton to the acre, and cut and cured two and a half tons per. acre, and three tons is not an uncommon yield on such land. It iscertainly a great deal better than to go on cutting less than a ton to the acre of poor, wiry hay, year after year.”