Table 3. Russell bermudagrass and other grasses.
 WFREC, Jay, FL. 2000


 Dry Matter
 Pounds per acret


Entry
DH#1 $
Florakirk
Tifton 85
Russell
Volunteer 
Volunteer 


LSD(t.05)


29 June
 3600
 3230
 2560
 2870


 530


9 Aug.
4150
4350
4330
3420
3330
650
680


29 Sept.
 2800
 2320
 2520
 2030
 1740
 1750
 470


Total
10,550
9,900
9,410
8,320
5,070
2,400
1,040


t Pounds per acre X 1.12 = Kilograms per hectare.
$ A grass from a local field (Identification suspected but not certain)
 Volunteers included crabgrass and whatever came up in 2000. The plots for the entry on the
 bottom were seeded to Cd90160 bermudagrass on 29 June 00 under some of the better moisture
 conditions of this past hot dry summer, but no germination was observed.

SOIL: Orangeburg sandy loam (Typic Paleudult)
PLANTED: Russell and Tifton were set on 16 Mav 95. Florakirk was s


FERTILIZER:


on 4 April 96. DH #1 was set on 22 May 97.
400 pounds per acre of 8-24-24 on 13 April 00; Ammonium
nitrate at 200 pounds per acre on 11 July and at 100 pounds
per acre on 14 August 00.


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