SUDAN i;hass. 1 1 fourth being cowpeas. This is ;ii the rate of US tons of the mixture per acre.

In an adjacenl one t « * > » 1 1 » acre plat Johnson grass and cowpeas were Beeded at the same rate; thai i-. 2 pounds of Johnson grass and 3 pounds of Earl) Black cowpeas in place of Sudan grass i Eg.

."> ) . The yield <»f the mixture was 561 pounds of air-drj hay, or 2.8 tons per acre.

\ imilar mixture of Sudan grass and Arlington soy beans, a twin ing variety, was sown the -a me date, using 3 pounds <>f soy beans and 2 pounds <>!' Sudan grass. Aboul one-fourth of the mixture was aoy beans, which twined aboul the grass to :i height of I to 6 feet. When PlO. Plata ;ii Irllngton r i \ eowpeaa (right) and Johnson grass ai ft).

cut on September 6 the Sudan grass was in bloom ;iii«l the soy-bean pods were about half grown.

This mixture cured more readily than the cowpea mixture and was superior in physical quality. The yield was 888 pounds of cured haj .

or at the rate of 1. 1 Ion- per acre.

Figure 6 -how- a -tan. I of Tu iii- L r ra-- planted in rows a i Arlington Farm for comparison with tin- Sudan grass shown in figure 3.

TESTS AT MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENT STATIONS.

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At the San Antonio (Tex.) Field Station Mr. S. II. Hastings tested Sudan grass :n l'.'Il and 1912 and reported afollow-: Prom the growth of the plat tested in 191] this appears to he the mosl promising grass that has heen grown at the experiment farm. Two plats w< I dr. 125]