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and of as great impoitance to birds as w heat is to man. It hard- 

 ly requires to be sown, for it springs up almost every where of it- 

 self. It is well, however, to sow a few pounds of it on an acre 

 when perpetual pasture (not hay) is the subject. The agrostis 

 stricta is the herds grass of Virginia and the south. The best na- 

 tural pastures, carefully examined, were found by Sinclair, to 

 consist of the following grasses : Alopecurus pratensis ; dactylis 

 glomerata ; festuca pratensis ; plileum pratense ; avenaelatior ; 

 anthoxauthum odoratum ; lolium perenn^is; bromusarvensis j 

 poa annua, and avena pratensis ; ten species. The Bermuda grass, 

 doub grass or cyncdon dactylou. A tall repent grass which 

 flourishes on sandy lands, is an object of cultivation at theSout^i. 

 It affords abundant pasturage for sheep, and it binds loose soil 

 together. The levees of the Mississippi are planted with it. 

 Many distinguished farmers on the southerly side of that river, 

 speak very highly ot it^ It is difficult to eradicate. Mr. AfSeck 

 considers it to be most nutritious ; and in his latitude (Washing- 

 ton, Mississippi,) it yields three cuttings a year, of the total 

 weight of from five to eight tons per acre from a moderately good 

 meadow ; frost Idils it however. The grama grass, native of 

 Mexico and the West Indies, is small, grown on poor land, bears 

 a very nutritious seed which it retains all winter, and is highly 

 recommended for cultivation in the southern States. Captaia 

 Cook of the United States army, says it is stoloniferons 

 (stools) and perennial. This must not be mistaken for the gama 

 or Bufiklo grass. Tripsacum dactyloides, a coarse, perennial, in- 

 digenous, southern grass growing to four or five feet high; it is ; 

 very productive, but yet is thought not to be scarcely proper for j 

 planting. One of our most durable pasture grasses on inferiojf j 

 soil, is the dog's tail, or cynosurus oristatus. Curtis examined »' | 

 sod of grass and found in that small compass /owr2'ee;i different 

 species of grass. In p-istures, if the grass is allowed to go to seed _ 

 they degenerate and go out, but if closely fed off and not allowed 

 to go to seed} they last good much longer^ 



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Trifolium repen?, must be a native, for It springs up sponta- 

 neously from the soil even when turned up from considerable 



