. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. fertility, it willsupport about one steer peracre for eight to nine months,while on exceptionally favor-able soils it may support fouror five steers for a longer feeding value is fully equalto that of timothy, though itsmarket value is usually , it becomes trouble-some as a weed, when it canbe eradicated by freezing theroots, or by shading theground by the growth of othercrops. Johnson Grass {Sorghumhalepense).—This is anothergrass which figures largely
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. fertility, it willsupport about one steer peracre for eight to nine months,while on exceptionally favor-able soils it may support fouror five steers for a longer feeding value is fully equalto that of timothy, though itsmarket value is usually , it becomes trouble-some as a weed, when it canbe eradicated by freezing theroots, or by shading theground by the growth of othercrops. Johnson Grass {Sorghumhalepense).—This is anothergrass which figures largely inthe agriculture of the southernstates. It is strongly stoloni-ferous with culms four to sevenfeet high with long flat leaves,and an open panicle six toeighteen inches long. It wasintroduced as Aleppo grass fromTurkey in 1830 by GovernorMeans into South Carolina, and in 1844 into Alabama by Col. WilliamJohnson for whom the plant is named. It is propagated by seeds, andif it is desired to control the plant, which sometimes becomes trouble-some, it should never be permitted to go to seed. It is distributed as10. Fig. 62.—Bermuda grass (Cy>iodon Dactylon).(After Ball, Carleton R.: Winter Forage Crops forthe South, Farmers Bulletin 147, 1902, p. 15.) 146 PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL BOTANY an avivectent, because the hard, outer covering of the seed is indigestibleand passes through the digestive tract of cattle unchanged. It producesa large amount of good hay with an excellent quality. Usually two to
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