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Cattle are very fond of it, and will leave clover to feed 

 upon Bermuda. It also has the capacity to withstand any 

 amount of heat and drought, and months that are so dry as 

 to check the growth of blue grass, will only make the Ber- 

 muda greener and more thrifty. The experiment of mix- 

 ing the two grasses, spoken of above, has been tried with 

 eminent success. 



It is also used in the South as meadow grass, but Ten- 

 nessee has so many other grasses of more value, that it 

 would not be profitable to employ this, other than as a pas- 

 ture grass. 



Where it is indigenous, it has a great reputation as a 

 fertilizer, and many fields so worn out as to be worthless, 

 have been reclaimed by it. The labor of plowing it up is 

 considerable, but the many improved plows of the present 

 day would be easily dragged through it. There is a sacred 

 grass in India called the Daub, and it is venerated by the 

 inhabitants on account of its wonderful usefulness. This is 

 said to be precisely the same as the Bermuda, except the 

 changes made by the difference of climate and soil. 



"Bermuda grass well set, which affords the finest and 

 most nutritious pasturage I have ever seen, will keep 

 almost any number of sheep to the acre three or four times 

 as many as blue grass/' 



HAIRY MUSKIT--MEZQTJITE--MESQUIT (Bouleloua cur- 

 tipendula.) 



Muskit grass has come into very general use in some parts 

 of Virginia, North Carolina, and, to some extent, in Ten- 

 nessee, and where used, has given much satisfaction. It is 

 the grass of the northern and western prairies, and is very 

 nutritious. In the absence of grasses better suited to this 



