. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. inglecutting just before frost. Ittillers greatly, as many asfifty stalks having beenobserved as springing fromthe same root. The Agricul-tural Department at Wash-ington recommends that teo-sinte be planted in drills threefeet apart and thinned to afoot apart in the rows. Onepound of seed is sufficient toplant an acre. One drawbackto this grass is that it does notmature its seed in Tennessee,and very rarely north ofSouthern soil for its growth must be deep, moist and fertile. Any soilsuitable for corn will produce teosinte. It is one
. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. inglecutting just before frost. Ittillers greatly, as many asfifty stalks having beenobserved as springing fromthe same root. The Agricul-tural Department at Wash-ington recommends that teo-sinte be planted in drills threefeet apart and thinned to afoot apart in the rows. Onepound of seed is sufficient toplant an acre. One drawbackto this grass is that it does notmature its seed in Tennessee,and very rarely north ofSouthern soil for its growth must be deep, moist and fertile. Any soilsuitable for corn will produce teosinte. It is one of the rankest feedersof all the grasses. Dairymen living near a city would find it valuable asa soiling crop for cutting green and feeding to milch cows. The stalksare very tender and are eaten greedily by cattle, whether green or dry. It is a difficult matter to cure this grass properly and many othergrasses adapted to the soils of Tennessee are to be preferred to it formaking winter feed for stock. It may be cut with corn knives in the fall. Teosi -luichhriia ami, /•. liixiii in>, The uppermost cut in the fiffuie .shows themale inflorescence reduced one-lialf; to the liglitbelow is shown the feiuRle inflorescence mostlyconcealed within the slu-alhing leaf; to the leftbelow is shown a single female spike. R. Ajoint of the rachis ol the fem^ile spike. SI. Ter-minal portion of the stigma. 41 and set up in shocks. It has very little, if any advantage over corn whenthe latter is cut and put up before the blades are dry. Teosinte harvestedin the same way would probably have its greatest value and be most easilysaved at the smallest cost for labor. It is superior to corn as a foragecrop only in its capacity of giving a greater yield.
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