. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm and garden, 1902. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 62 T. W. WOOD & SONS, Richmond, Va. JOHNSON GRASS. Makes Very Large Yields of Hay or Forage. This is a most valuable crop for the South; it is not properly a grass, but is really a perennial sorghum. It grows rather coarse, but makes a large yield of forage which, when young and tender, is relished by stock, and makes a large yielding crop of
. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm and garden, 1902. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 62 T. W. WOOD & SONS, Richmond, Va. JOHNSON GRASS. Makes Very Large Yields of Hay or Forage. This is a most valuable crop for the South; it is not properly a grass, but is really a perennial sorghum. It grows rather coarse, but makes a large yield of forage which, when young and tender, is relished by stock, and makes a large yielding crop of either permanent pasture or hay; but we would not advise to sow this variety if the ground will be required for other crops, as it will be difficult to eradicate it from the soil when it once gets a hold. It should also be cut just as the seed-head is making its appearance, before it flowers. If this is done there is no difficulty in confining it to the fields where it is sown, cut in the way above indicated. If the seed is allowed to form, it not only does not make as good a quality of feed, but the seed being scattered by the drop- pings of animals, it is likely to appear in cultivated fields and places where it is not wanted. Its nutritive qualities are said to be superior to Timothy hay, and when carefully handled it is one of the most valuable and satisfa tory forage crops that the Southern farmer can grow. The following letter sent to us voluntarily by one of our customers, Dr. W. J. McCain, of Sumter county, Alabama, brings out the good points ot Johnson Grass so clearly thac we give it here for the benefit of our cus- tomers: "I have had considerable experience with Johnson Grass, and find that it makes the best bay of any grass that we can depend on in this portion of the Sooth, and if cut at the proper time and properly cured, it makes just as pood, and I think, more palatable bay for" horses, than No. 1 Timothy. Tbree heavy cuttings can be gotten in a most
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