The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-07-30
GUINEA GRASS.


nor aught set down in malice"
EprroR ADVERTISER: About three mile
from Montgomery, on the plantation fOrmeri,
owned by AIabama's iIlustrious historian, tn
long-departed Col. J. Pickett, Is a hilltop bury
ing ground which was sown down in 1924
with the now famous Guinea grass anG
though always free to the birds Of the air, - ii
not % the "bcasts Of the field" Guinea grass il
practically unknown to The Pickett Place
has At least never become a noticeable feature
of it-and IL rarely, II At all, encountered
elsewhere on it, than on the plat mentioned,
which has present area Of less, perhaps, than
two acres.
"Goode'z Garden" a little over mile from
your inviting sanctuIn, has on it to-day less
than quarter acre OF Guinea, due 10 the SOW
ing the same year-or more than hall ccntu-
~ ag0-of few square yards in the south
west corner; while divers neighboring growers,
and grower. more distant, Tor years past,
tify TO being untroubled so far, by it, inva-
eion=, though habitoaliy feeding stock on
The late Col. y. i. Moore Of Augusta.
Georgia, describing, In his admirably written
letter To- the author of that Invaluable little
work, "Howard5s Manual 81 Grasses" the
pr0perIes and peculiar exceliencies oI the
Guinea grass says Il would say that after
an experience Of more than forty years in cul-
sivatine grasses OF almost every kind named
IN your Manual, prefer the Guinea grass.
And Mr. Howard, reviewing the communica- I
And this view seems % have been endorsed [
BY Colonel Moore in 1873, after ten years ded- /
icatIon To his entire farm on the Immediate /
confines ol Augusta. 10 the Guinea yras5-hc /
then aging o. the writer, My neishbors have /
never hal cause to complain, Ion it has never
Travelled beyond prescribed limits
And Augu-ta--uotod we need not say, Tor its
clear headed business Intelligence, and evinc-
ing its enlightened appreciation Of Col. MoOrc's
cOumcBdabIe euterprise-ncveT, VIC believe,
threatened
nob-law or legislative violence: but has al
ways paid materially higher prices for the
Guinea grass than Tor any rival hay impressed
with it, sup,riority, and with q sense OF duty
no less than interest, 10 encourage 4 home
product OF such conceded value.
Guinea grass Is more difficult TO propagate
than destroy. L
1t is, in fact, an unusually precarious crop +
readily yielding, in it, early stages, to turn {
pillow or hoe; and Is never half az formidable {
as the all Pcryadng Bermuda grass the Grab s
grass, or the irrepressible prairie born and /
praire-abounding chicken corn. 4
Much grazing is a specific against it while d
excessive wet mulching viii enectuaIly de
stroy it at any age Z
In fact, heavy cutting Of the grass left to I
decay on the meadow, viii soon leave little 10 y
tell OF its untimely demise; and we add that =
The greatest care is usually necessary to avoid
barren spots, often occasoned by the too i
long standing Of mows and even by their i'm i"
perfect removal a
Guinea grass is, in short neither thistle nor 81
thorn, but beneiaction to be more valued as a.
better known.
An Invaluable servant, itneed never become W.
q hard MASTER the only real trouble being in ''
getting and maintaining paying stand For -
acre alter acre unacc0untabiy disappears sea
son after season, and attenuatcd conditions of
The meadow, rs often occur from causes equal -
~ uucomprehended
The difficulty, in short, is always in the 4
Quantity never i'm the quality. II
For while stock, with rare exceptions per
laps, are devoted To its hay its nutrient prop r,
rites are as seventeen to ten, compared with
wen the best Timothy; working stock-in GE
'ontirnation- having boon kept in good order
n it for months with less than third of the nj ~
Usual quantity of grain! NJ
And yet the best meadow NAV be so mis- ii'
managed to become an Objectionable neigh Wv
or-as witness Johnstors near Selma; which WIN
nienced, and allowed to seed, was for years
pen to rowing cattle indiseriminatingv scat Gu
1rTIng the well riPened seed; with, OF course, H.
II conceivable effect Mis-
Nor need we suggest that the indiscriminate NJ R
Issemlnation of the well matured seed how Al, Al
yer effected would probably be with like re- Ne
llts' whether on farm garden, on the lawn (! Mis-
But, there's nothing, certainly pecuIiar in !;
ms And he whO-with full KNOWLEDGE Of Wp.
he premlses--wOuld for such Il reason serious Mis-
war against Guiena grass-or any other pro Mis-
uct OF such undeniable value-is an enemy to Mrs
Is KIND; very Ishmael-" his hand against MR.
very true mans hand Mrs
For such man would remit mankind and N M
c world ut large to primal conditions and Jaw
zen oppose any start I'll
" IN Il cyhiSisln admitting OF no compro- thar
i'O, "e "ouiu apoilsh marriage because not year
ways fortunate, the dccalogue because of havi
oxen commandments, the christian religion pear
ell for that its professors not all in the sam
it'll liter
Would indeed, convert Paradise into a, mod
riekiug p,nd.Yno,,;,,, ~ - char
shaP 10 give birth to his ilusrious COM t ia "
er, the devil le i
But let US, in all charity, hope that mortal III
IN tins form never did, nor never will cx- saIul
! Ihat II II unfortunately should. that the ters
'li hghtnng and the rolling thunders win Al
re IL with hollis from Heaven, robbing ii OF jul
)rtal form, and consign il TO filter abodes- ---
KING among devils, and a devil among
To recur however-we with all erapbasis IA
,ert and defy contradiction that the sod
II not Sermlnate until thoroughly ripe-
i as the test, not until absolutely black
at weeks and even months are often ne
'Fy 70 TINS condition, after appearing on
stalk and il wanted for propagation. that ! II
: ~ aos iipeh WIN the needed elect, CHAR
'ept on the uncut growing stalk REv
, nat more can be claimed by the most
~, than this? Ii more however. then As
l3 say We, that it won't travel up
most pretensel,.ss 5itcb NJ noI eros and c
N
e. AGAIN, II sown in drills of usual NJ ~ :
'hce, repeated cross blowing viii usually So
leeessary 10 make the plat solid. 8ncia
is accordingly hoped that PLANTER, and Tn
possibly too ready follower Merchant" nuall,
J lnd IN the facts seeds of comfort rather privai
n the well ripened seed rs the only seed For fl
give troube-of the nonpareil Guinea
= july
hat Nebuchadnezzars favorite uerbans =
usIve diet, the German Grass We VIZ \ LII
we confess, prepared 10 believe But "a
lld Jiscr-:I;, :; We uon Know why We The
zno,, i = -, ' moving the grass as mence
Lin, - :IoN7 more reasonable than organi
ig else sad III his, at least graceful ar struct
: Ihus-'or Us Nebuchadnezzar to craze cious :
an OK, on guinea grass, for all time To venien
@! ments
'lanter," > at least rhetoric; homeIv. and Uns'
en- intelligence betoken early conversion Langu
iat he VAL soon indeed be welcomed AMONG uiScou
iauntIess lew engaged in COMBATING The ~ Stas
Ning pretenstons of King Cotton-fearless sic;on
rtents from more familiar, but NAV h. Iisb Ce
promising paths, striking real blows for or elem
'etlcaI Independence--and in this for ear $245
release from our depressing vassalase IN ~
more enterprising North which and course
fbody knows realized grass crop in For
year! SV''o" crop i 'i the july
sured that your well read columns are as
In every case, to defense as assault-tbat
est defense OF the incompatible Guinea IN
L m The factsE7and broadly. Challenging
here presented Tur
Truly, &c. w having