A Preliminary Report on Experiments with Forage Crops

Authors

T. L. Lyon, University of Nebraska

Date of this Version

3-31-1898

Document Type

Article

Citation

Bulletin of the U. S. Agricultural Experiment Station of nebraska, volume 10, article 4

Bulletin / University of Nebraska, number 53

Distributed March 31, 1898

Comments

Public domain

Abstract

A preliminary report on experiments with forage crops. Covers sorghum, cow pea, hairy vetch, Canada field pea, non-saccharine sorghums, soybean, and rye.

Summary

Permanent grass pastures may be successfully substituted by certain annual forage plants.

A quick-growing variety of sorghum affords pasture fully equal to native or cultivated grasses.

Sorghum has the advantage of affording more forage per acre, and in being green and succulent throughout the entire summer. Its disadvantage consists in the necessity of plowing land for each crop.

One acre of sorghum will furnish pasture for ten cows twelve days.

The most profitable time to pasture sorghum is after it has attained its height, and before heading.