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Title: Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Spillman, W. J. (William Jasper)
Subjects: Grasses
Publisher: New York, O. Judd company London, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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das a winter companion for Bermuda grass, but not ona scale sufficient to give positive results. A few farm-ers report favorable results with it. By plowing Ber-muda sod in autumn it is probable that a crop of fall-sown oats could be grown for hay and leave goodpasture the next summer, though this suggestion restsrather on theory than on experience. JOHNSON GRASS (SorgJmm halapense) In South Carolina this grass (Fig. 27) is generallyknown as Means grass, while it is frequently but er-roneously called Guinea grass in Alabama and othersections of the South. It is unquestionably the worstweed in the South. At the same time, it yields two tothree crops of good hay a year. Those who are notacquainted with Johnson grass are often inclined tothink that a weed that yields such crops of good feedis a good one to have on a farm, and this would, infaft, be the case if only the one crop were desired.There are, however, very few farmers who want togrow nothing else. Those whose farms are free from
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FIG. 27—JOHNSON GRASS TWO PROMINENT SOUTHERN GRASSES 139 Johnson grass very wisely refuse to feed the hay, norwill they buy horses or other stock from stables whereit is fed. For these reasons there is not an extensivemarket for the hay. As to the feeding value of Johnson grass hay, itmay be stated that all kinds of stock eat it greedily.Horses prefer it to timothy, and it is fully as nutritiousas the latter. For cattle, idle horses, and horses atordinary work, the only possible objection to the hayis the danger of spreading the seed of it in the drop-pings. It is not a satisfactory feed for livery-stablehorses, being too laxative. It might seem that thedanger of spreading Johnson grass could be avertedby cutting the hay before the seed is ripe, but such isnot the case. In the first place, it is not always pos-sible to cut hay at the right time, because of unfavor-able weather, pressure of other work, etc. Again, theseeds of grasses are so inconspicuous that it is notalways easy for

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