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used when sown broadcast, though when in drills and cultivated, 

 one-third that amount is sufficient. 



Other Grasses and Clovers Flourish — Many other forage 

 crops are grown, among them Dallis grass which is grown from 

 northern Georgia westward to northern Mississippi, and which 

 not only makes a heavy yield of hay similar to that of timothy, 

 but is also one of the best winter pasture grasses. The so-called 

 Mexican clover is not a true clover, but is a volunteer crop which 

 furnishes great amounts of both hay and pasture in southern 

 Georgia, 'Alabama and Florida. Beggar weed flourishes on all 

 the sandy soils near the coast, where it springs up in the corn 

 and cotton fields after the crops are laid by, and enables the 

 dairyman to make good "June" butter in January. Texas and 

 Florida growers make six to ten tons of hay per acre from para 



Baling hay without horses 



grass, and the despised crab-grass of the North often makes two 

 tons of hay per acre as a volunteer crop, costing nothing but 

 the cutting. Melilotus, the "sweet clover" of the North, covers 

 thousands of acres of the lime lands and makes a hay which 

 can scarcely be distinguished from alfalfa. The vetches, burr 

 and, crimson clovers, guinea grass, cassava, and many others 

 might be mentioned, but enough has been said to show that no 

 other part of the country has a greater variety or more produc- 

 tive and profitable kinds of forage crops than are to be found in 

 the South. 



For further information on forage crops for the South, 

 write the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Publi- 

 cations, Washington, D. C, for Farmers' Bulletins Nos. 89, 102, 

 147, 300, 312, 318, 339 and 372. 



