The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-01-18
The Rescue Grass.

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Columbus. Georgia. Nos. 20. 1858.
DEAR SIR: | have received your
friendly letter of The eth inst, and IN
answer, have 10 say, that | faye enter
ed your name ia my book for one peck
!. OF the seed Of my truly valuable spe-
cies Of grass. have no seed to dis
pnse Of this year, but will be able to
supply the demand next wear, say, in
June, July, aud August. The demand
is very great, and only such as send me
their names will be certain Of seed.
Ny price j. IS for a peek, which i
plenty i0r person TO begin with
You will sow them as early after re-
celsing them as you can. that il may
come up Early in September; and as
i grows rapidly, by the middle Of No
vember YOU can put Your stock upon
il. itwlll then keep them fat through
the winter and spring, Ill you see il
forming the head, for seed, when they
/ should be removed. This grass, how
ever, has this remarkable quality, that
il may be cut or ale down after tile
heads are formed, aud then spring up
and make rs much seed as il il had
not been touched. This will enable
YOU to use field Of il until in June,
and, perhaps, in your climate, still
longer.
The Inst year sow the seed IN drills
twenty inches apart, after having the
ground well broken up. Sow thin aud
cover lightly. The seed will not spruut
till September, even if sowcd in June
or July, which is the time to plant
them. When the seed ripens they
she'd out easil,-you will strip the
heads with the hand. or shake they in
a basket,-let a plenty escape " the
ground for 4 stand on the same ground
! ileM September. Aitcr.you saye your
seed for other fields, SOW lrraS broad.
!, cast or in drills, and turn under the
!. grass, peas, aud seed which fell to the
ground in gathering. This is the plan
to restore your exhausted fields, and
which you must adopt. When you get
plenty Of seed, YOU will find that the
grass ploughcd i'm makes an excellent
manure TO the field, aud will make the
|, peas grow with a rush. The grass
! saves the ground or field from washing
rains through the winter aid spring.
, 1t Keeps your stock fat throughout the
wintcrand spring. 1t will enable your
mich cows to give your wife the best
OF milk, and cream, and butter. Item
: ables YOU 10 have fat bccI, mutton, kid,
pork, turkeys and chickens. 1t will
save your corn aud fodder for plough-
ing time. 1t will, after doing the
above, yield you from four to six tons
n OF the most nutritious hay per acre for
9 Your horses, mules aud cattle. 1t re-
turns also an excellent coat ol manure
!, to the field. Thepca protects the field
r also from the washing rains Of summer
and fall. The Vines give shade to the
d ground during the hot months. In the
Q fall, when ripe, they are a valuable
: fool for man or beast. And the vines
give large coat of manure to the field
: Now, the Rescue seeds will be up il
their time, and BY November Goth, j,
ready for your stock again--and SO fol
low It up until the third Or fourth year
when, il YOU wish 10 cultivate the held
put in your plows and turn the. greer
grass under; it is not hard to do. Thl
gives the field another coat OF manure
: Now plant the field and YOU will see /
e produce as well as it ever did, beside
'c having paid you all the time it took L
a. restore it.
,s This is my experience well tested
\ and if the pea does well with you, I
: should be used with my grass, as hay
,e said abDve. Ii not, then the grass vii
e. do it single handed. This plan vii
cost you but little, either in money
labor or time, and will make your ex
hausted fields yield you good crops a
gain, and that forever, If the plan
followed. The best of it too is, tha
Is, you get paid, richly paid, all the TINS
while it is effecting it.
must ask you to help me lntroduc
this invaluable species of grass anon
your friends III the good old Mort
State. They will find it the most n
luable grass ever introduced, Or s"
can be introduced. Its, for the Soutl
far more valuable than silver or golt
ht and its worth is above rubles. vi
send seed to you at Raleigh. to sell i'
: me, il you will consent to act as agen
Accept my best wishes, while ! Y
-, mai II, your ob't srry't,
MI B.. IyERSON.,
Ev vspAEp HAIL, Esq.
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