Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-05-27
Farmers, look at this!


There is grass, or grain, called =" Hunga-
rian Grass, or German Buck Wheat which Is
extensively raised in Iowa, where it was first
introduced by Hungarian Exiles. An extensive
farmer of Abba, Monroe County, Iowa, says
" that for foraging purposes it is superior to
either Timothy, Red-top, Clover, Oats, or any
thing else you can name" He asserts :" that
cattle and horses will leave everything else to
eat it. Chickens, turkeys, and hogs will fatten
on the seeds, of which it will yield from thirty
to fifty bushels to the acre. 1t is certain to
produce good crop in any season ; at least, so
it has proved for the last four years. He states
that the premium crop, for the County of Mon
roe, was eight tons and two hundred pounds of
good dry hay per acre. That was raised on
common prairie, without any manure. He says
that the common time of sowing it with them
is from the tenth of May to the first of July,
but thinks about the twentieth of May is the
best time. 1t appears from what this gentle
man writes, that he considers crop of this
grass to be equally as good as one of Timothy
and one of oats, at the same time from the same
land. 1t will be valuable if cut in five or six
weeks after it is sown, but will stand three
months without injury.
gentleman at Yellow Springs, Green Gem
ty, Ohio, has sent a circular to all our Post
Offices, stating that he will send to any individ-
ual by mail, sufficient quantity of this seed to
SOW one square rod, for the sum of fifteen cents,
&C free of postage" That will cost our farm
ers at the rate of 1924 per acre, aside from
all their trouble. /" But as good luck will
have it," as the saying is, there is a plenty of
this seed in our own vicinity, and what is bet
ter, it was raised here, in our own State, on our
own soil, and in our own climate; thus prov
ing that it it adapted to the wants of farmers
in the State Of Vermont, as well as in Iowa or
Ohio.
Some three or four years since, a traveller
passing through Middlesex, stopped at the Mid
dlesex House, owned and kept by A. L. Cham
berlin, Esq, and left him about tablespoon.
full of the seed, which he gave into the care Of
a neighbor of his, telling him that he might
raise it 't to the halves'' He, Mr.. Judd, the
neighbor, sowed it in the garden, and raised
from it one half bushel of seed, although the
birds and barn-fowls destroyed quite portion
of it.
1t requires about eight quarts of seed to the
acre, if you sow for seed if for grass, sixteer
quarts. 1t should not be allowed to stand to(
long, but cut early in order to secure it from
Smelling and from birds Mr.. Chamberlin say
that he saw piece containing just six square
rods, from which Mr.. Judd harvested two bush
els of seed, weighing sixty pounds per bushel
The grass is not only good for forage, but tn
grain, when ground and boted, stands high a
an article of food for the table, to be used 70
making warm sweet cakes, griddle cakes, &c
For grass two crops may be raised in one season
Mr.. Judd states that Germans, seeing thi
grass and grain, pronounce it to be the VERT
able Hungarian Grass, or German Buck Wheat
- A"iiN'o WISH w y ohio CIop ehoy Ctu
supplied with the seed, and obtain all needle,
information in regard to it, by applying to tn
Post Master, or to A. L. Chamberlin, Middle
sex, VT, who can furnish sufficient seed to SO,
fifty or sixty acres, at a cost not exceeding $40
per acre, instead of $24,00, as from Ohio
The expense of getting this seed is so small, tina
every farmer may improve the opportunity {
trying the experiment at triAing cost ant
if what is said of it can be relied upon, as
think it can, it will prove an invaluable acqu
sition to the staple agricultural products Of tt
State of Vermont. 1t is peculiarly adapted
our coolest and most backward farms, and
requires but season of from eight to twel,
weeks to come to maturity Would not OF
farmers do well to give it trial?
A. M. NEv1Ns
Moretown, May 3, 1858.