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Middle Tennessee and in moist, open places on the borders of woods in 

 all parts of the state. It is a valuable addition to the native grasses and 

 cattle seem to relish it more than any other wild grass. A species known 

 as Eatonia filiformis grows on the dry hills of the cretaceous formation in 

 West Tennessee, but while cattle will eat it in the absence of other grasses 

 it is not of much agricultural value. 



Diarrhena Americana (American Diarrhena) is found growing on 

 the rich soils among limestone rocks. Its feeding value is about equal to 

 that of cheat. 



Eleusine Indica (yard grass: dog's tail) is frequent in all places 

 where there are human habitations or have been. In many abandoned 

 places on the Highland Rim it grows very rank. It constitutes one of 



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the wild pasture grasses that will make good and lasting pickings for all 

 kinds of stock. . 



Bouteloua curtipendula (horse shoe grass) grows on dry soils and in 

 pine barrens in various parts of the State. It makes a dense turf which 

 will bear tramping well. It is one of .the best native grasses for highway 

 pastures among cedar glades. 



Muhlenbergia diffusa (nimble will) is an indigenous and perennial 

 grass. It forms a dense mat on limestone soils and in river bottoms. 

 The writer has seen it growing in the woods four and a half feet high. 

 There is a great difference of opinion as to its feeding value. Dr. F. H. 

 Gordon maintained that it was one of the most nutritious of the wild 

 grasses and said that this was demonstrated by the fact that much of the 

 beef and mutton sold in the Nashville and Memphis markets was fat- 

 tened on nimble will. On limestone lands thinly wooded and where blue 

 grass has not already obtained possession, nimble will furnishes good 

 pasturage for five or six months in the year. Dr. Gattinger, on the con- 



