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How THE FARM PAYS. 



OTHER SOUTHERN GRASSES. 



The question of grasses and fodder crops for the Southern States 

 is of the greatest importance. The changing character of the agri- 

 culture of the South necessarily draws attention to the rearing of live 

 stock, and of course fodder and grass crops must follow. It has been 



PANICUM SANGUINALK (CKAB GRASS). 



supposed that the Southern climate is not favorable to grass and 

 consequently few farmers venture to invest in live stock of any kind. 

 But this idea is a great mistake. There is no other part of this con- 

 tinent where grasses of the right kind will nourish with greater 

 luxuriance than in the South, and it is particularly desirable that 

 attention should be called to this fact in this work, which is devoted 

 to the subject of profitable farming all over this broad land. But 

 there are an exceedingly great variety of grasses, and this large family 

 of plants has its finest and most numerous representatives in the 



