. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. rmous,resembling very much corn-fodder. As a hay it is fullyequal to corn-fodder, and itcan be saved at one-tenth thelabor required to save is very nutritious and succulent when cut green. The great massof roots will serve to open, loosen and improve the land upon which itgrows. It should never be allowed to shoot up the seed stem when de-sired for hay. It is with difficulty the seed can be made to vegetate and therefore itmust be propagated by slips from the roots. Prepare the land well, layoff the furrows with a bull-tongue plow two f
. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. rmous,resembling very much corn-fodder. As a hay it is fullyequal to corn-fodder, and itcan be saved at one-tenth thelabor required to save is very nutritious and succulent when cut green. The great massof roots will serve to open, loosen and improve the land upon which itgrows. It should never be allowed to shoot up the seed stem when de-sired for hay. It is with difficulty the seed can be made to vegetate and therefore itmust be propagated by slips from the roots. Prepare the land well, layoff the furrows with a bull-tongue plow two feet apart, and drop smallpieces of root about one foot apart in the furrow, covering with a creeping roots will soon meet, and the ground is quickly turfed withthe grass. It should be planted early in September. Of course, thericher the land, whether upland or bottom, the greater the yield. Poorland rarely makes better crops of anything than fertile land. I have seenthis grass growing with great luxuriance in Montgomery county, Gama or Sesame Grass—Tripsacum dactyloides. 2. Inflorescence. 3. Base of the female inflorescence. 4. Upper leaf. 5. Male or stam-inate spikelet. fi. Female spikeletin section. 7. Female spike-let expanded. 40 TEOSINTE—(i5«r///rtv/rt MexUana, E. /nAtniatis.)—(Grown for Fodder.) This is an annual grassand in the luxuriance andlargeness of its growth it muchresembles Indian corn. It at-tains a height upon fertilesoils of from eight to twelvefeet. It is of tropical originand was introduced into theUnited States probably fromCentral America or Mexico,or from both. It has been successfullygrown at the Experiment Sta-tion at Knoxville, and is re-garded as one of the mostprolific forage plants knownto agriculture. Stock is veryfond of it, and it will yieldtwenty or more tons of greenforage per acre. It will bearcutting several times duringthe year but some authoritiesbelieve that the best resultswill be obtained from a singlecutting just
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