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will be all and more for Texas than Kentucky blue grass 

 is for Kentucky. It is of stronger growth than Kentucky 

 blue grass, and one writer says that he has seen it grow 

 ten inches in ten days, and that the coldest weather does 

 not nip it. It almost disappears during the summer 

 except in shady places, but starts with the first fall rains 

 and cool weather, and will furnish green food all winter 

 in all parts of the South. 



With Texas blue grass and Bermuda there is no reason 

 why the South should not become a great grazing country, 

 for both grow on all sorts of soil from sand to heavy clay. 

 Owing to the difficulty in sowing the seed it will probably 

 be better to plant cuttings of the running stems as in the 

 case of Bermuda. These can be had by planting bunches 

 of the seed in squares a foot apart in a sort of nursery 

 ground, and from the growth of these to get cuttings the 

 following fall, for while the Bermuda should be planted in 

 spring the Texas blue grass should be planted in the fall. 

 The cuttings can be planted in rows in the fall and other 

 rows made in the spring between them for planting the 

 Bermuda cuttings, and in one season of winter and sum- 

 mer they will take possession of the whole land. 



This is another of the Poas, or blue grasses. 

 Fowl Meadow j^ j^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ f^^j meadow grass, but the 

 Grass , 



generally used name is that we have given, 



and is supposed to be derived from the wild fowl having 

 introduced it in a meadow in Dedham, Mass. It is a 

 common grass in the Northern States, and is botanically 

 Poa serotina. Its chief value is from its adaptability to 

 low and wet soils. It makes a fine soft hay and a very 

 nutritious feed. From its growing in low lands it makes 



