16 SUDAX GRASS.

in one plat covering one twenty-fifth of an acre and 6 rows in another one twenty-fill li of an acre. These were sown May 1 and harvested for seed August 1-. yielding, respectively, at the rate of 900 and 700 pounds of seed and 2.775 and 2,525 pounds of stover per acre.

ALABAMA.

In reference to a test at the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Mr. E. F. Cauthen sent the following account: The Sudan grass was planted June 15 and was mowed for liny on August 16. We planted it alone, in connection with cowpeas, in connection with Japanese millet, and in connection with German millet. The Japanese millet is too early for the grass. The German millet fits better with this grass for hay. The ordinary cowpea seems to he a little late as a combination crop. The hay should have been cut about the 1st of August, but was left for the farmers attending the summer school to Inspect, I am inclosing a print showing the grass and cowpeas just before they were mowed. It looks to me that the Sudan grass will make a permanent bay crop for this section. I have one plat that I am saving for seed and will mow the other the second time if the grass gets sufficiently high.

TENNESSEE.

At the Tennessee Agricultural Exjeriment Station one-tenth of an acre was sown broadcast. Prof. C. A. Mooers wrote as follow?: Our test with Sudan grass will not allow me to draw all the conclusions that you want. This grass rusted rather badly this year but made a fair yield, and under favorable conditions I feel sure that a second crop could be cut to advantage. It stood the dry weather only fairly well. Comments by Prof. Morgan and others who saw the plats are rather unfavorable to this grass, but I think the tonnage was greater than that of millet sown at the same time. Of course, common sorghum would outyield it greatly, but the difficulty with which it is cured hardly enables us to make a fair comparison between the two. I may add that some Rhodes grass planted at the same time far outyielded the Sudan grass and made a very attractive growth, indeed.

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KENTUCKY.

In a small test at the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station the grass was allowed to mature for seed. Prof. II. Garman reported the following results: Land plowed, disked, and harrowed. One-fortieth of an acre planted at rate of 2(i pounds per acre. Drilled; rows 3 feet apart. Came up May 27. 1912. Stand perfect. Began to bloom July 15. In full bloom July 2.~>. Last bloom August 5. Cut for hay October 21. Yield, fresh. 190 pounds. Yield, dry. Is4 pounds. Height of plants, 7.1 inches. Seed saved for planting in 1913.

MARYLAND. The results obtained at (he Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station are tints reported by Mr. Nicholas Schmitz: The Sudan grass was planted in rows on June :! and July 1.'!. The planting made on June ."! consisted of about one-fourth ,,f an acre. It came up well, and there was a g 1 stand to begin with, but owing to various accidents during the season there was not more than about one-third of a stand left to produce [CIr. 125]