Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-01-28

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being changed to one-half the grain and
this hay, began to improve Immediately
in flesh, and their coats more sleek and
shiny. Cattle will do very well on this
hay after seed is threshed out. The Il
grass has good roots, grows deep in the
ground, and will stand dry seasons much
better than any other kind of grass
The dryest seasons will NOT make the
grass wilt in the middle of the day.
After the grass is rnown, it will sprout
or sucker very thick, and viii make
much more pasture than timothy and
clover, after being mown, during the
summer and fall. In some sections,
where timothy hay sells for $40 per
ton, the hay of the Hungarian Grass
brings from Sl2 to $I5 per ton.'
The NeoO York Tribune, in a late
number, quotes from correspondent in
Vermont, who is jubilant over his src-
cess in growing the Hungarian Grass
He produced two tons of dry grass and
twenty-five bushels of seed from four
quarts sown. He claims for it an aver
age yield of over six tons of dry grass
and thirty bushels of seed per acre.
An Iowa farmer, located in a section
where this product has been well tested,
states that the usual yield of the Hun
garian Grass, in that section, is about six
tones per acre, but the premium crop of
this county, as returned to our late fair,
was eight tons and some two hundred
pounds to the measured acre of good.
dry hay, suitable to put in stack, duly
sworn to by disinterested parties, to the
satisfaction of the committee, in order to
receive the premium
have many similar statements from
other sources, all of them equally strong
and many of them much more enthuSias-
tic in favor of this product, and, in all OF
my investigations, l have found no far
mer or planter whose experience had
given an 1unfavorahle opinion of the
Hungarian Grass, unless he had been
: unfortunate in not having obtained pure
seed, and even those whose crop was for
this season. largely mixed with millet,
: have spoken highly in its favor. : IT,
= says a distinguished essayist, in an able
; agricultural address, the introduction
of the Hungarian Grass shall accomplish
7 nothing more than to bring into general
+ cultivation the common German millet
: which is at the present day almost un.
Y known to our farmers, it will add million;
a of dollars to our agricultural wealth.
Like all plants, the Hungarian Gras!
= has its varieties, which in different sec
: tions become modified by climate, soil anc
J modes of cultivation. In a trip through
= various portions of Europe, during thu
o summer of 1857, / was at considerable
= pains to inform myself in regard to
n there, and l found that iE France, where
u in some sections, on account of its sur
q passing sweetness, it bears the name Q
h the Honey Blade Grass, it not only yield
more largely, but is more nutritious tha
at any | have seen at home, or from th
T. soil of Hungary which has here given
n its name. This fact induced me TO obtai
II few bushels of the seed from a Frenc
N agriculturist, which | brought home wit
y me. l gave some of it TO my neighbour
and seeded several acres of my own farm
rs near this city, with it, the result being
al much richer yield than was able TO pre-
10 duce from the seed of last years crol
is The experiments of my neighbor's, 5, ais
ID prove beyond doubt that the seed W.
In of superior variety, although of tt
OF same species as what is here known ;
the Hungarian Grass.
m, The same difference which gives Il
h. Hungarian Grass its superiority over II
millet will apply to the HDney Blade
nd comparison with the Hungarian produC
OF The millet has a coarse hollow stalk, ,sir
nd liar to that of oats, while the Hungari;
er Grass has a much finer stalk, more Ill
that of herds grass, and the Honey Bia
ny is Of still finer texture, and is mo
Fu sweet and tender, the hay produced fro
{" ii very much resembling the rowen
Ne common grasses. II is also much mo
'u' nutritious, the seed containing lar
'or amount of oil.
lSt These circumstances, with knowled
Its Of the fact, that the cultivation OF I
he Hungarian Grass has as yet extended
ed, but a small fraction of the more than t.
per millions and FIVE hundred thousand far
,l8 and plantations in the United States a
Canadas, and also that large portion
III the crop, at the present year was mix
the or impure article, suggested to me I
nee idea of the importation Of seed to sup,
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