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better spread by planting small bits of sod as one would 

 potatoes, only covering no more than an inch deep. The 

 sod may be cut into pieces no more than an inch square, 

 so that a little of it will go a good way, but as it does 

 not spread so very rapidly the bits should be placed about 

 one foot apart. Texas bluegrass likes good soil. If I 

 were living in the South I should endeavor to establish 

 it in my garden, whence I could transplant it to the lawn, 

 and later perhaps to permanent pasture. 



St. Augustine Grass (Stenotaphrum dimideaton). 

 This grass is used in Florida as a lawn grass. It seems 

 to thrive on very poor sandy soils, and to make an ex- 

 cellent sod. It seems hardy as far north as Charleston, 

 but is not seen far from the coast. It is planted by cut- 

 tings, as is Bermuda grass. 



Quack Grass (Agropyrum re pens). Death is a thing 

 that is pretty sure to happen to the other fellow. No one 

 ever considers that it may happen to him. The same 

 thing is true of our enemy, quack grass. We see it on 

 other men's farms, and complacently believe that it will 

 never attack our own. It is in Iowa, Minnesota, New 

 York; it will never come to Ohio or Illinois, so we im- 

 agine. Take it from me that quack grass can and will 

 come to all regions north of the Ohio River, and I see 

 no reason why it should not thrive far south of that. 

 When it comes it comes unannounced. You do not dream 

 that you have it till it has made a few patches in your field 

 so tough that men can not cultivate through them; then 

 you begin to wonder what it is that has possession of you. 

 It takes you after that several years really to awaken to a 



