HAPPY HOLLOW FARM 153 



On one corner of the clearing we gave Ber- 

 muda grass a lodgment, planting a few sack- 

 fuls of root cuttings brought from the town- 

 side of the mountains. There's the grass for 

 you ! It is spreading and spreading ; wherever 

 it's had a chance it has made a sward deep and 

 thick and smooth as velvet. It knows nothing 

 of discouragement or defeat; it's at its best 

 right in the middle of a hot, dry summer, when 

 almost every other pasture plant on the list has 

 bowed its head and surrendered. Year by year 

 it grows better and better; a five-year-old sod 

 will carry more cattle to the acre and for a 

 longer time than any other grass that grows. 

 It seems a mighty pity that northern winters 

 are too much for Bermuda. More than any 

 other single factor, Bermuda grass promises to 

 make the South into the great meat-producing 

 section of the Union. Supplemented with any 

 of the clovers, it makes perfect pasture for any 

 growing animal. 



Native southern farmers have fought Ber- 

 muda grass as a pest because, once it has estab- 

 lished itself, it spreads and persists stubbornly. 

 It bothers the southerner in his cornfields. But, 

 if the farmers only knew it, there's more real 

 money to be made in the careful grazing of an 



