The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-05-20

! This isa remarkable showing. and
seems to demonstrate the high value
OF this grass on locations and under
the conditions named.
Regarding amount OF seed TO SOW
the professor very sensible says:
81 tested the seed, found it to be of
high terminating quality, and ad-
vised farmers to SOW not more than
twelve pounds per acre. had noticed
in agricultural papers that farmers
were advised to SOW all the way from
fifteen to forty pounds per acre, and
have a most excellent but thin stand.
The stand will rapidly thicken, how.
ever. This matter should be remem-
bered, for it is very important, since
bronze seed is high priced and likely
to be for several years to come. 1t is
pleasing to note that scientific and
capable agriculturists are beginning
to recommend lighter seeding of grass
es and clovers.
We have been raising bronze grass
(Bromis incrmis) at this station for
about twelve years. During the earlier
years we used it exclusively for mead
ow and seed, but for the last three
years we have given it very thorough
trial as pasture grass, and we are full
ly convinced that it is much the best
grass yet tried here for that purpose.
1t starts early in the spring, makes a
very tough sod, is not easily killed out
either by close feeding or tramping.
occupies the ground 50 fully as to
drive out all weeds and inferior grass
es remains green later in the fall than
any other grass, and is grecdilv eaten
by all kinds of stock.
This spring (l9O3) has been a very
cold, backward one, and the other
pasture grasses have only fairly start
cd on this eleventh day of May, while
The bronze grass on meadows that are
closely pastured last fail stands about
six inches high, while some fields that
were seeded last year stand ten inches
high. In fact this bronze grass of last
years seeding would afford more feed
at this time than an equal area Of
winter rye on adjoining fields and this
rye Gid not winter-kill and is better
than an average crop for this time of
the year.
This station has raised and sold
large quantities Of bronze grass seed tg
the farmers of the state for the last
ten years, and has sent out many let.
ters of inquiry TO it's customers, and
in no single instance where it has
been given fair trial for pasture has
there been any complaint. AS a mead
ow grass it has not proved SO universal
~ satisfactory; for while a large ma
JorltY have reported fayorably, some
have complained that it made thick.
compact sod, but did not grow tall
enough to yield a satisfactory crop Of
hay. We have had no difficulty in this
respect, nor haye any of the farmers
IN this vicinity, SO far as we know
Most of the complaints have cor i,
! from those who Sowed it on rather
light, sandy land with water near the
surface on land we'll adapted to the
growth OF the common blue-iointand
alfalfa. We have grown it on both ~.
land and bottom land with good re-
suits, but we find it usually becomes
tuft-bound about the third or fourth
year after sowing, and believe that it
Will usually be found desirable tc
either break it up or use it for pasture
after cutting three or four crops fol
seed and hay.
Bronze grass should be sown broad