14 SUDAN CI! ASS.

September 16. The actual amount of seed harvested from the three rows was L8.5 pounds, which is ;ii the rate of OTs pounds per acre. June V2. two rows. 36 inches apart, each 8 rods long, were planted. One row was cut for hay September 16, when 6i feel hiirli. but it should have been cut earlier. The yield of this row was 110.5 pounds, or at the rate of 6.08 tons per acre. The second row was left for seed, hut did not fully mature when killed by frost September l\ only -j pounds of mature seed being secured.

OREGON.

Regarding a test at the cereal station, Moro, Oreg., in 1912, Mr.

I). K. Stephens gaye his experience as follows: Of the several grasses planted this spring at this station, the Sudan grass is the only one that gave good results. It was planted in rows 3J feet apart. An excellent stand resulted and it grew vigorously to a height of 4\ feet. It was cut for hay on September li»". and yielded at the rate of 1.08 tons per acre. Although we have hut this one year's results with this grass, it is the most promising one we have tried, with the possible exception of slender wheatgrass. So far as moisture is concerned, this season was a favorable one. hut if this grass can stand the usual dry weather of this Locality there is a future for it here. MINNESOTA.

At the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station Prof. A. C. Amy reported that Sudan grass was planted in two short rows, one S feet long, the other 6, the rows 2 feet apart.

It was apparently sown thicker than it need he. for the grass is very thick in the rows and grew to an average height of 58 inches. There is a great abundance of leaves at the bottom. The stems are not very coarse and it 'nuks as though the grass might make a very good quality of bay. The cattle seem to like it green and there is apparently no reason why they should not like it cured. It is altogether probable that, cutting the crop at the right time after planting it early in the season, two crops could be secured. The new growth at the base of the roots makes me think that this would probably be the way it would turn out.

1 am not sure whether the grass will mature seed this fall or not. It depends altogether on how the frost holds off. A i'rw of the seeds were planted much thinner and they have reached a height of over 100 inches, being higher than any of our sorghum plants. Sown thin this way the stalk is quite coarse and it would not do for hay; that, of course, is not the way it is meant to be grown.

WISCONSIN.

From the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station. Prof. A. L. Stone wrote as follows: The Sudan grass sen' us last spring for trial came a little too late to give us an opportunity to get in as large a plat of it as we would have liked to do. We put in only a single row of the grass, this row being about 60 feet long. The grass came on very nicely and headed out in tine shape. It will he Impossible under the circumstances to make any estimate of the yield per acre.

bul from its appearance I am of the opinion this grass might prove of value in some sections of the country and possibly right here in Wisconsin, although it would need some experimentation to determine whether it can compete with timothy. I like the appearance of the grass [Cir. V2o]