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Cultivation of the Grasses and Forage Plants at the South. 



these products to our cotton and rice and 

 sugar, we shall, perhaps, live more independ- 

 ently than any other people in Christendom. 

 Grass culture is the basis of this independ- 

 ence. It is a dictate of philanthropy, as well 

 as a suggestion of interest, to promote it. If 



this Ifttle Manual, making no display, using 

 no scientific terms, but as popular as simple 

 language could make it, shall have assisted in 

 the most humble manner in the attainment of 

 this end, it will have fully answered the pur- 

 pose of the writer. 



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