The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1915-11-18

is always Oh Cne qul VlVe IOT any
thing that can be of interest 4
them.
Thurmount, Nc.
Nov. 10, IS 5
Mrs. Camilla Breazeale,
Natchitoches, La.
Dear. Mrs. Breazeale:
Knowing that you have an e!yv
single to the interest of agr}cuI
ture of our section | send yp'
under another cover The Country
Gentleman, reliable Agricultural
journal and | desire to call your
special attention to the article
Our Newest Forage Crop, tn
Sudan grass If our farmers anc
planters are really in earnest abou
diversifying their crops there IS nc
doubt that the introduction OF INC
Sudan grass will be of benefit <
I'll an.
| hope that you will quote fr q
this Journal and place this mum
Der before the pubIic's eyes as &c
benefactress of our section.
Grain crops are as fine as car bc
desired, selling at satisfactr y
prices.
The potato and peach are abn
dant and apples farely good,
Blue Ridge Farm sent several 81
the feathered to the FredeIicB
Fair, they returned With 10 be
ribbons, 5 red ribbons, and 4
yellow ribbons. In the egg ex'
ibition Allen Town, Penn. il
sweepedstaked against 81 den11 J.
strators.
We have been visited WI B
several frosts and a fortnight Az
the FIRST ice Of the season appeer-
well, with regards.
Respectfully,
j. A. Prudhomtt !.
When Sudan grass was irst
introduced in the Southwest,
back in 1909, the farmers look
ed upon it with suspicion be-
cause in appearance it closely
resembles johnson grass,
which has the reputation OF
being q dangerous weed.
Within the past two or three
years t hese Southwestern
farmers have awaken to the
fact that Sudan grass is very
far from weed, but is tbs
crop they have been waiting
Tor through many years Of
---dn4E n Faas99psssr r.4v:y preserved
thousands of acres. Prim-
arv a hay crop, it has up to
now been grown largerly for
seed, because the demand for
seed has created extraord%
inarily high prices.
Maturing It's first crop ID
sixty to eighty days. there rs
a big future for Sudan grass.
The Southwest has adonte
Sudan grass into its forage family .
The West Oklahoma and Texss
prairies are rolling oceans IF
Sudan grass. In many sections
the cattle country the problem: )
no longer TO provide hay fo-
winter feeding, but to get enoug J
livestock to consume the ha Y.
Sudan grass is the newest CT
forage crops. It's introductic ]
dates back only to 1909, when il
was first brought to this count
from Khartum. Sudan, by the.
United States Department o
Agriculture. The first test va.
made at the Forage Crop FteIa
Station at Chillicothe, Texas
Because of the scarcity and aImos.
prohibitive prices charged TO
seed heretofore, the history OF
Sudan grass as an extensiyc
American field crop has prcba5lr
begun with the present year. ::
A single row, sixteen and a half
FEET long, planted at Chillicothe il
1909, furnished the seed that has
'tafted the Sudan-grasS craze.
Patches of this grass have beea
grown during the past year or tive
a nearly every stsse in the Union.
{ has been successfully grown as
Or north as Canada.
Sudan Rrass gives promise of
'econing a national hay crop.
sut its greatest usefulness, &C
ording TO the Federal agrono
aists. promises to be within q zene
hat includes practically all of
'exas and Oklahoma. Eastern
colorado aud a strip through the
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