34 CLIMATES. 



On the moist black lands grass grows spontaneously and in great 

 variety, and on the heavily manured lands of the trucking section 

 wonderful volunteer crops of hay are made from the crab-grass after 

 an early crop of vegetables has been shipped, and here, too, the cow- 

 pea, "the clover of the South," flourishes as it does nowhere else. 

 Cattle winter without any care at all in the great swamps, feeding 

 on the evergreen reeds of the cane-brakes, and come out in the 

 spring in good order and are soon ready for market. Many hundreds 

 of the common scrub cattle of the section are thus pastured in winter, 

 and with improved cattle and the abundant forage that can be grown 

 there should grow up an export trade in cattle raised right near the 

 ports from which they are shipped. 



