Sudan Grass.

PASTURE.

15 Sudan grass lias attained popularity as a summer pasture crop. In regions of low rainfall and high temperatures, its carrying capacity during the hot summer months is superior to that of any other grass or legume. On the experimental farm at Dodge City, Ivans., m the summer of 1914 a herd of milk cows was pastured alternately FIG. 9.—Cows pasturing on irrigated Sudan grass at Bard, Calif.

on Sudan grass and on native grasses. The Sudan grass furnished abundant pasturage at the rate of one cow per acre for 125 days and the cows made a daily average of 3.8 pounds more milk per cow on the Sudan grass than on the native grasses.

In 1915, at Chillicothe, Tex., mules, horses, and cows allowed the run of a held containing equal areas of Amber sorgo. Golden millet and Sudan grass all showed a decided preference for the Sudan o-rass' At the Arizona experiment farm near Prescott, Ariz., Sudan grass