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Show TO CULTIVATE SUDAN GRASS Good Stirring of Soil After First Crop is Removed Will Greatly Help Plants in Starting. (By R. E. KARPER. Oklahoma Experiment Experi-ment Station.) "Would like to know if it is advisable advis-able or necessary to cultivate after cutting first crop of sudan grass for seed." M. B.. Bliss. Okla. Sudan grass should be cultivated as soon as possible after the first crop of hay is removed. A good stirring of the soil at this time will be a great help to the plants in making a good, strong start toward the second crop. If the ground has been kept clean and free from weeds during the early part of the growth of the first crop it will not be necessary to cultivate frequent, ly during the growth of the second crop. Just enough cultivation to maintain the desired soil mulch will be needed in this case. By the time the first crop has matured the plants have stooled and spread out In the row to such an extent that it makes any cultivation a much less tedious operation for the second crop than is the case with the young plants during the early growth of the first crop Since Ihe first crop is to beallowed to stand foi seed purposes the growing period of the second crop will be shortened several weeks at best, and ?nod cultivation will help considerably tcunrd irci easing the yield of the second sec-ond cutting. |