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Bermuda grass is more easily eradicted from sandy land than from 

 clay, and on such land may be more safely introduced into a rotation. 

 To kill it out it should be rooted up or plowed very shallowly some time 

 iu December and cultivated or harrowed occasionally during the winter. 

 If severe freezes occur most of it will be killed by spring ; or it may be 

 turned under deeply in spring and the land cultivated in some hoed 

 crop or one which will heavily shade the ground. 



M. M. Martin, Comanche, Comanche County, central Texas: 



Bermuda grass grows on any kind of soil in Texas, but will not stand the tramping 

 of stock on loose, sandy soil. It is hard to beat for a grazing grass, though long 

 droughts cause it to dry up. It is not very early to start in the spring. 



Whit field Moore, Woodland, Ked Eiver County, northeastern Texas: 



Bermuda stands droughts well, is a good fertilizer, grows well from fifteen to twenty 

 years from one planting, then only needs plowing to renew it. It is tolerably easily 

 subdued by shallow turning in early winter, so that it will freeze. It yields heavy 

 crops of hay and can be mowed three times a year. It is the finest grass I have ever 

 seen for summer grazing, and when inclosed from stock during the summer it is fine 

 winter grazing. It will stop washing, and cause low, wet land to fill up and become 

 dry. 



E. W. Jones, Buena Vista, Miss. : 



Bermuda has been a great terror to planters until recently. If plowed shallow late 

 in the fall, and^llowed to freeze during winter, there is no trouble to cultivate a crop 

 the next season. The ground becomes perfectly mellow, and though the grass is not 

 dead, it does but little injury to the crop. 



E. Taylor, Pope's Ferry, Ga.: 



Nothing kills it except severe freezing. It is the best of all grasses, and thriveson 

 any soil, but best on clay. It furnishes good pasture from May until the middle of 

 November. For winter grazing bur clover is taking its place. The yield of hay is 

 about 2 tons per acre. It will reclaim the poorest lands, and is not very difficult to 

 subdue. It ripens seeds in this State sparingly. 



J. B. Wade, Edgewood, DeKalb County, northern Georgia: 



This is about the most northern limit at which Bermuda grass grows in this State. 

 It is beginning to be highly appreciated both for grazing and for hay. It stands 

 drought well, keeping green from May until November. It makes good hay, and can 

 be cut two or three times a year, producing on an average 2| tons of ha;r per acr 

 While this is the most northern limit of Bermuda grass, it is also the most soutl 

 limi't of blue grass. The two growing together on the same land produce a most per- 

 fect pasture, as the blue grass is green nearly all the fall, winter, and spring months, 

 while during the heat of summer, which prevents the growth of the blue grass, 

 Bermuda flourishes. The two together in good, strong soil make a perfect pasti 

 good all the year around. 



Prof. S. M. Tracy, now Director of the Mississippi Agricultural Ex- 

 periinent Station, formerly of the Agricultural College, Columbia, M<>.: 



It has been in cultivation near St. Louis, in one locality only, for many years, 

 barely survives the winter and would doubtless be destroyed by pasturing, 

 noticed it very carefully about New Orleans, where it is by far the most 



