Show EXCELLENT FOR WORK STOCK capacity of sudan grass to live through hard drought Is its highest recommendation sudan grass Is recommended as an excellent hay for work animals fed grain and one acre will furnish all the hay that one work horse or mule will need in 12 months and come rain or come drought sudan grass Is one plant that will make more or less of a crop its capacity for living through a blazing drought Is its very highest recommendation men dation because of this quality it was brought to the united states and the recent dry years have served to call attention to its possibilities texas feeding experiments show that the stock prefer it to millets the cattle and horses eating it greedily the first cutting at the kansas station in 1914 was made between the dates of july 5 and july 15 was of fine ity and was readily eaten by stock the straw remaining after the seed was threshed out of the later cuttings was eaten by horses with as much rel ish as shown in their consumption of any other bay horses cattle and hogs were fed with this hay during the kansas experiments in colorado it was fed to dairy cat tie in green forage form with excel lent results the milk flow was immediately increased professor church III of the oklahoma station found it was readily eaten by all classes of stock none of the stems being wasted As both hay and straw it was cleaned up by cattle and horses the work horses of the station being carried through the summer months on a tor age ration of the hay and the straw it proved slightly laxative an added point in its favor as a forage |