. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. das a winter companion for Bermuda grass, but not ona scale sufficient to give positive results. A few farm-ers report favorable results with it. By plowing Ber-muda sod in autumn it is probable that a crop of fall-sown oats could be grown for hay and leave goodpasture the next summer, though this suggestion restsrather on theory than on experience. JOHNSON GRASS {
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. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. das a winter companion for Bermuda grass, but not ona scale sufficient to give positive results. A few farm-ers report favorable results with it. By plowing Ber-muda sod in autumn it is probable that a crop of fall-sown oats could be grown for hay and leave goodpasture the next summer, though this suggestion restsrather on theory than on experience. JOHNSON GRASS {Sorghum halapense) In South Carolina this grass (Fig. 27) is generallyknown as Means grass, while it is frequently but er-roneously called Guinea grass in Alabama and othersedlions of the South. It is unquestionably the worstweed in the South. At the same time, it yields two tothree crops of good hay a year. Those who are notacquainted with Johnson grass are often inclined tothink that a weed that yields such crops of good feedis a good one to have on a farm, and this would, infadt, be the case if only the one crop were desired.There are, however, very few farmers who want togrow nothing else. Those whose farms are free from. I llfc^ ll