Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1858-04-22
HUNGARIAN GRASS.
Ssven aud Eight Tons to the Acre.

and valuable crop, has induced meto issue
this Circular. This valuable crop which
has been raised successfully by the farmers
of our section of the country forsfour years
past, has gained notoriety and reputation
abroad, which has rendered it necessary
that some person should present to the
public history of its value and uses, mode
of culture, De-, DC.
The Seed originally came to the far west
through the medium of one. of the Hanga-
rian Exiles, without doubt from the Turk
ish Empire, whittier they came. 1t has
surpassed all our expectations as to quail
ty AID quantity. Some persons living "a
broad have supposed it to be some wild
grass found in some secluded prairie; 9th
ers have supposed tito be the common Mil
let, which has been raised in the United
States for several years We assert that
it is neither; that it is HUNGARIAN GRASS;
crop that we have never seen or heard OF
before In America
Millct has been raised by our farmers for
many years, and it bears no comparison to
the Hungarian Grass for its cxcellency.-
Millet is coarse, woody fibered grass,
with a bushy head and but few blades; pro-
ducing like corn, one shoot for each seed
whereas the Hungarian is fine grass, ten
der stalk, round head, and stools like Rye
or Oats, from five 10 fifty stalks, and In
one instance seventy stalks and heads have
grown from one seed. 1 think it proper,
therefore. not to confound the one with the
other, for the Hungarian Grass resembles
Milet no more than Bald Wheat resembles
Rye, Oats or Timothy; and the scale of in
/ feriority is about the same. This grass,
with our ordinary cultivation, grows from
three to four and half, and even five feet
high, very thick, with heavy blades on
either side of the stalk, with round bushy
head, from two to four inches in length and
full of seed. The hay is very heavy, the
stalk and blade very sweet, and our cattle
and horses eat and love it better than Tim
othy and sheaf oats, and eat it up clean
The usual yield with our farmers has beer
after four years cultivation, from four tC
six tons to the acre of good dry hay, witt
our ordinary cultivation; although the pre-
MUM crop of our county was eight tons,
} and thirty-five pounds, and of the adjoin
ing county, seven tons and two hundred
and ten pounds of good dry hay suitable tc
stack, duly sworn to by disintercstcd per
sons, taken to secure the ptcmium at tn,
county Far-raised without manuring.-
But its excellencies do not stop with it as
grass. The seed itself is most cxccllen
anil rich, producing from thirty TO fit.
bushels to the acre, and weighing usual,
Eft.- L. al I,,..l.,l HI, coal
fully equal to Corn, Rye or Oats, for horses
sheep, cattle, hogs. chickens, turkeys
geese, &C.; all of which are exceedingly
fond of it and will fatten upon it. As ;
crop it never fails; wet or dry, with us j
has been sure. Other crops have often fail
ell. but this crop has stood all drouths AM
all rains, and has been certain crop. a.
hay crop this grass is displicing all 9th
er grasses in our section of country; being
a more certain crop, greater yield, and ia
richer as a hay or grain for all kinds o
stock. Horses with its use, fatten ant
take OH a sleek, glossy coat. so much adj
mired; cows increase in How of milk an,
quantity of cream; while chickens fed upol
the seed will lay most beautifully.
| With our usual laboring force since the
introduction OF this grass into Iowa, w,
can feed seven months in the year, and hav'
plenty of hay to sell in the spring, and th
grass grows upon our lands where we usu
! ally raise Corn, Wheat, Oats, Barley an
other grasses, without any manurlng, and
must abb, often with poor farming. yc
, manuring will doubtless increase or crop
as it does most other crops. In point q
certainty, no crop compares with 1t. Bu
some persons who are not ACQUAINTED wit
, it, object to it because it has to be sowc,
yearly, but its enormous yield and certain
ty of crop doubly compensates for this, TO
one acre is worth one of Oats and one O
, Timothy All the time up to this year, tn
, home demand in it's immediate vicinity ha
, consumed all the seed; this season Their
will be surplus to send abroad, and if th
pains | have taken to Introduce this see,
! to the farming community, shall be tn
f means Of adding anew element to their az
ricultural wealth. (asit has been to ours,
) this alone would be sufficient rccomPrnsc
idle from the little compensation for III.
personal services in the matter.
$ The introduction of this little handful o
/, seed by the poor Hungarian Exile has add
G millions to the wealth of the Great West
and its bounty will swell to the East, car
rying fool and raiment, to feed the hungr
{ and clotlc the naked This is not sayin
e too much, foi we regard this grass as on
G of the greatest blessings conferclupon Us
-Four years it has been raised with us, am
I the more it is known the more it Is admir-
cd
This grass is a hardy grass and rcsists
great amount of wet, damp weather. / hav
seen it take eight or endays of damp rain
I weather the past season and yet make goo
G hay while any other grass know of woul
$ have turned black and rotten and becam
! worthless. 800 go
4 At first our farmers were rather afraid Q
o it for fear it might either exhaust or destro
their ground, but four years culture ha
c completely lissipated all their fears and W
: are satisfied that it exhausts our ground n
more than Corn, Wheat. Rye or Barrie,
nor as much, as oats, and we believe that
tits ploughcd under, that it will prove til
7 greatest renovator to the soil that can
produced. As an evidence Of its popular
Iity here farmers would not be Induced t
y III Al L. Ill. IA