. Almanac and garden manual for the southern states of the J. Steckler Seed Co., Nursery stock Louisiana New Orleans Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 89 and a catch will be obtained. 5. The grain being harvested when ripe does not injure the Lespe- deza, which is ready for the mower through Sep- tember and October. 6 It is more easily cured than the clovers, pea vines and many gra ses. 7. It does not lose the foliage in curing as do clovers, peas an
. Almanac and garden manual for the southern states of the J. Steckler Seed Co., Nursery stock Louisiana New Orleans Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 89 and a catch will be obtained. 5. The grain being harvested when ripe does not injure the Lespe- deza, which is ready for the mower through Sep- tember and October. 6 It is more easily cured than the clovers, pea vines and many gra ses. 7. It does not lose the foliage in curing as do clovers, peas and some other p'ants. 6. It furnishes good grazing from May, some years last of March till killed by frost iu October or .November. PKODCOT OF HAY. On medium to good land it ranges from one to three tons per acre; and this may be obtained after having during the summer harvested from the same land a good crop of grain and straw. QUALITY. Some of our farmers who have been mowing Lespedeza striata for five or ten years, regard it as the soundest, be^t, most wholesome and pala- table hay they ever used. These mowings have ranged from two to three hundred tons on a single farm in one season. Yet no complaint as to qual- ity, or relish of animals for it, or as to its nutritive value and good effect on the stock has ever reached us. Those who have used it longest and in largest quantities and kept animals—cattle, sheep, horses aud mules—iu best condition, commend it most. We have now before us a beautiful sample of per- haps 300 tons mowed last autumn. SEEDING. A measured half buskel of seed per acre may be sown broadcast the first week in March south of parallel 32© of latitude, a few days later as we proceed northward for each degree or two. Sown in the Fall ©r Winter it springs up, but freezes often throw it out and destroy it. As already staled, it germinates and grows well on land in any condition, if the surface is not so loose as to let the seed sink too deep. When land h
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