. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. SUDAN GRASS AND RELATED PLANTS. Pilot Point, Tex., in the same year. None of these later importations had any appreciable effect on the spread of Sudan grass in the United States, because practically all of the seed distributed by the United States Department of Agriculture to State agricultural experiment stations in 1912 and to farmers in 1913 originated in the importation of 1909 grown in the increase plats at the Chillicothe (Tex.) Field Sta- tion in that and the following years (fig. 2). The Texas Agricultural Exp
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. SUDAN GRASS AND RELATED PLANTS. Pilot Point, Tex., in the same year. None of these later importations had any appreciable effect on the spread of Sudan grass in the United States, because practically all of the seed distributed by the United States Department of Agriculture to State agricultural experiment stations in 1912 and to farmers in 1913 originated in the importation of 1909 grown in the increase plats at the Chillicothe (Tex.) Field Sta- tion in that and the following years (fig. 2). The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station obtained a consider- able quantity of the seed from the Depart- ment of Agriculture in 1913 and distrib-. uted it to farmers in the State, enthusias- tically urging i ts propagation. The success of the Sudan grass was im- mediate and phenom- enal, and in order to encourage its propa- gation the Office of Forage-Crop Investi- gations has carried on a great many testsin cooperation with the State agricultural ex- periment stations. It is the purpose of this bulletin to de- scribe the results of these tests more fully than was possible in the former publica- tion, Farmers' Bulle- tin 1126, in order to establish definitely the status of Sudan grass in different sections of the United States and to furnish a more complete basis for the recommendations given in the bulletin mentioned. Other grass sor- ghums closely related to Sudan grass are considered also and their probable value indicated. DESCRIPTION AND BOTANICAL RELATIONSHIPS. Sudan grass is an annual hay plant belonging to the sorghum family, with slender stems 4 to 6 feet high, numerous, rather soft leaves, a loose, open panicle, numerous tillers, only occasional. —The first row of Sudan grass grown in the United States. Pho- tographed at the Chillicothe (Tex.) Field Station, July 17, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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