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tliem it is also likely to be much grown for hay. Its 

 growth has been much retarded in the cotton growing 

 states by the trouble found in completely exterminating 

 it in soils much used for growing cotton and corn, but 

 now that the fact is becoming recognized that the lands 

 well set to Bermuda grass are yielding higher revenues 

 than the former, its growth is rapidly extending. It is 

 certainly destined to become the leading pasture grass 

 in all the states south of the parallel named, in areas 

 susceptible of cultivation. 



Bermuda grass has also been grown with much success 

 m Virginia where the farmers are laying down to this 

 grass considerable areas that were formerly devoted to 

 wheat culture. In Southern Kentucky, Missouri and 

 Kansas, it has been introduced to some extent, but only 

 with variable success because of the cold in winter. Even 

 in some parts of Tennessee and Oklahoma, winter weath- 

 er injures it. It will succeed well in Southern Califor- 

 nia, and reasonably well in much of that state, but it is 

 not a success in Oregon, ^orth of the states named this 

 grass would not seem to have any economic mission be- 

 cause of low temperatures. It will live much further 

 north, but does not make sufficient gTowth to enable it to 

 compete with grasses better adapted to northern condi- 

 tions. 



Bermuda grass has no economic mission whatever for 

 Canada. It is doubtful if it would endure the cold win- 

 ters in any province of Canada except possibly in Brit- 

 ish Columbia and close beside the Pacific. 



Soils. — Bermuda grass will grow and thrive in almost 

 any kind of soil, but of course not equally well. It 



