The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1859-02-10
Experience vs.. Dcnumciation.

The Editor OF the Ohio CHltipdtor, iii his edit
tiou OF Feb. lst, has an article in which he
charactsrize the Honey Blade Grass as
great swindle. lie says II is only another name
for Hungarian Grass, &c. We don't profess TO
know anything, practically, about this grass,
but then We have the opinion of one Of the most
Intelligent aud euterprising farmers OF Ohio on
the qualities of the Hungarian grass and that is
worth quite as much, in our estimation, as the
office opinion Of any editor VIM, Bonar, ESQ,
of Knox county, has tried the grass and the fol-
lowing letter to the Ohio Farmsr, published in
that paper of the 10Th ut,, shows what he thinks
about this "humbug:"-I Ep. JOURNAL
Hungarian Grass im Knox County.
As something has, from time to time, been
said in the Ohio Farmer, about Hungarian grass
it may not be out OF the way for me to give my
experience with that crop. Last spring, you
will recolleIt there was an editorial in the Far
rlet, advising your readers to be cautious in their
experiments, aud SOW but small piece, and try
ii cautiously, at FIRST giving at the same time
your opinion that although it grew luxurianty
on the plains of Hungary, and also on our wes
tern praries, it would not do we'll in Ohio Not
withstanding think it safe generally, 10 swear
by the Ohio Farmer, thought, in this instance,
better to follow my own Judgment, believing
as did, that the aluval vally o: Granuy's creek
about as reliable as any spot on this little foot
stool Accordingly, | ordered enough 10 sow
ten acres which after long delay, got here Just
! in time to sow, the last OF June: o"lng 10 'he
lateness os the season, and The dry, hol weather.
| it was put ill., in a very rough manner, beinS
| narrowed but once before sowing, and run over
once after with brush. II came up, (as might
be expected poorly, and stood at first quite
| thin on the ground but it grew and spread
rapidly, aud in sixty days after sowing was fit
to harvest. The yield was about two tons per
acre, of good hay--which | think was coed
yield, considering the way it was put III. AS |
! did not intend it for seed, have no means o.
knowing the yield of seed but it is quite large.
! All kinds of stock eat it with ayidity.
! am low feeding my sheep upon it, aud think
the seed equal to grain, (as they digest it per-
lcctly,D while the Gay is equal to the best time
thv. If this grass is hGmbug, as some Of your
correspondents intimate, / am willing to be
humbugged more. We think down here that
old fogy is about as bad an insect as humbug.
One word in regard to sowing or planting bu t
a little of field crop. My opinion is, ii you
sow any, SOW enough to make it worth taking
care of. Hundreds have, the past season, plan
ted "a little sorghum too little TO be at any ex'
pense to work up, and after annoying their less
cautious neighbors good deal, got little syrup,
and pcry little knowledge of the moduS operan-
di.--WM. BoYAR. Mt. Vernon, Jan. 5h.
Since the foregoing was in type, we have re.
ceived the Missouri Democrat, in which we find
the following, which does not sustain the opinion
advanced by the Cultivator, but leaves no doubt
on our mind respecting the good qualities of the
! Grass alluded to. We have accepted an agency
for the sale of the Honey Blade Grass, and not
wishing to rest under the sweeping dsnunca.
tons of au agricultural editor, have felt COMPEL
ed, in self defence, to publish both the foregoing
and following:
! HUNGARIAN GRAss.-A correspondent asks
".he result Of the crop of Hungarian grass in
| Missouri the past season." We answer, that so
far as We can learn The result was mos, satisfao-
tory. 1t isa grain that grows rapidly, bears
heat well, and therefore will answer to sow late
than almost anything else, if wa except Indian
Cont produces from two to five tons of hay
to the acle, and from twenty to thirty bushels
of seed--''tAe hay" it was stated by the farmers
at the Illinois State Fair in September last, sis
as valuable as Timothy. for stock of all kinds
and the seed more uutritive than oats
We have not, ourselves, been Us sangune ol
the value of this grass as some of our farmers
who have fully tested it, and they are OF
ought to be the best @dges in the matter, we
will transfer the remarks OF or.e o. them, as made
to Us few days since. He says that he 'has
gown four tons of hay and thirty bushels al
seed to tie ere, that in feeding stock he prefers
the hay made from this grass to the best OF
Timothy, and addition Of Corn daily. That
beef OF quality commanding the highest price
in market can be made by feeding the hay alone;
and that the seed, when fed ground produced
! fat rapidly" There will, unqueslionably, be a
large demand for the seed this spring, and far
mers who have it for sale should at once send it
forward to market.