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


of these has its different varieties, and
whether the article in question may be
included among them or not is a matter
of Indifference to the practical agricul-
turist provided it possesses the advant-
ages, as product, which are claimed for
it. The similarity of the seed has, how
ever, undoubtedly done much to impede
its general introduction for the enor-
nous demand for the Hungarian grass
seed, during the last spring, aroused the
vultures of speculation, and thousands
purchased, thrown upon the market, and
sold as Hungarian grass-seed, in some
cases as high as ten or fifteen dollars per
bushcl. The statement will almost stag
ger belief, yet, from careful estimate OF
the amount of seed produced during the
year 1857, with the amount sold in the
spring of the present year, | am salts
fed that not more than one-ffth of the
supposed crop of Hungarian Grass this
year is the pure article. In an exami-
nation of over twenty different fields.
during the month of July, found but
one field of the Hungarian Grass that
did not contain more or less of the COM
mon millet, which has been cultivated in
many sections of the West for the last
thirty years.
Such a result as this will of course
Tend to throw discredit upon it as any
thing new but, nevertheless, if farmers
q will be careful 10 use only the genuine
p seed, this prejudice will be quick ly over
f come, for single years growth of the
! pure article, in any section, will furnish
= such results of its superiority as can not
fail to carry conviction to every intel
r. Iigent agriculturist. A writer in the
VALLEY Farmer, who had watched the
., experiments in the cultivation of this
. product during The season of 1857, says:
, 1t is a crop that never fails. Wet or
dry, cold or hot, it has been a good
+ heavy crop; even last season, when that
!, sturdy giant of the West-the corn
- dropped his strong arms, and rolled up
. his green banners in the dry, hot blasts
i his more humble neighbor, the Hunga
i. rian Grass. spread his rich green mantl,
over the parched soil, and shot up it.
uxuriaut blades, and waved its COLDER
- heads triumphantly, in spite of the dry
. winds and rainless skies. In point o
! certainty, we have no crop which com
pares with it it seems to be exact,
= adapted to our soils, and is. perhaps,
- better crop here than in its native soil il
= the country of the Magyars. The Sc
. cret of its success lies in its strong vital
:; ity, stout roots and adaptation to dr..
soil. The roots of our common domes
tic grasses are too short and slender t
II reach below the influence of our dry
:, hot summers, while this production, fror
its greater yigor and larger roots, an
:, pierce below the reach of drought, an
=, draw up the treasures of fertility whic
!, lie beneath.
y, AS hay, it is superior TO timothy, ths
old substantial favorite of every farme
. Horses, changed from timothy and cor
to Hungarian, begin to thrive on ha
the usual allowance of corn, and put 0
that fine glossy coat so much admired
- stock growers.
II 1t is not the hay alone which give
=, value TO this crop; it produces seed
49, the rate of twenty TO thirty bushels
the acre, which in nutrive properties
much superior to oats; it is heavier, ar
" contains larger amount of oil.
truth, the crop is better than crop
!" oats and timothy put together.
.'e We know of a farmer in this sectio
last season. who from five acres thres
"'o ed out $50 bushel, making 5000.
"e A farmer in Illinois sowed some lal
'o'' with this seed after taking a crop
u" spring wheat from the same land, al
'"F produced three tons of good hay p
acre.
nd Another farmer in the same vicini
oSe sowed field of five acres with this Sc
Inc on the 25th of June; after having be
Seu sowed not drop of rain fell for Fl
ca ca weeks, and he began to feel discourage
i''' and supposed that he had spent his lat
"S for naught. On the 9th day of Aug
heavy rain fell and the grass made
iese appearance, and grew finely On t
be- 10th of October it was cut and cur
low and produced 1-2 tons of good hay
the acre, which readily commands from
the to $50 per ton.
lud- A correspondent in the albany c
|. tivator, in answer TO an inquiry for
rass best substitute for hay, gives preferer
tinf - che II u,poori,1 Cra,e ,,-o,- o..-,..,..t l.!