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The Effect of Nitrogen Rate and Clipping Frequency upon the Yield, Protein Content and Certain Morphological Characteristics of Coastal Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon, (L) Pers.)¹

Synopsis: Increasing the nitrogen rate from 0 to 900 pounds per acre annually increased hay yield, protein percentage, protein yield, stem length, leaf length, internode length and internode number in Coastal Bermudagrass, but decreased leaf percentage, seed-head frequency, and percentage nitrogen recovery. Increasing the clipping interval from 1 to 8 weeks increased hay yield, stem length, leaf length, plant height, seed-head frequency, internode length, and internode number, had little effect on protein yield and percentage nitrogen recovery, and decreased the protein percentage and leaf percentage of this grass.

² Former Assistant Agronomist, University of Georgia Coastal Plain Exp. Sta., Tifton, Ga., now Graduate Fellow, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and Principal Geneticist, Field Crops Research Branch, A.R.S., U.S.D.A., and University of Georgia Coastal Plain Exp. Sta., Tifton, Ga., respectively. The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Earl H. DeVane, former Assistant Agronomist, University of Georgia Coastal Plain Exp. Sta., Tifton, Ga., and Dr. Franklin P. Gardner, former Assistant Professor, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., now Assistant Professor at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa.

Received for publication February 13, 1956.

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