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ducing a considerable bulk of forage. But the burs, when mature, make the plant 
a troublesome weed, though not so formidable as the related sand spur (C. tribu- 
loides). Judge R. C. Long, at Tallahassee, places this fourth among the sponta- 
neous hay-making grasses of Leon County, Fla. 
CowPEASs.—This is the most widely cultivated, in its several varieties, of leguminous 
plants in the South and highly valued, not only for its excellent forage quali- 
ties, but also as a restorer of exhausted soils As a crop for rotation with corn 
or other cereals, it is a ently 5 It is grown almost everywhere 
in the South Atlantic sod Gulf Sta 
CRAB GRAss (Panicum sanguinale). dec goes is generally considered the best hay 
grass of the Southern States. It is never cultivated in the ordinary sense, 
but comes up spontaneously on arable land after the cultivated crop is taken off. 
FiG. 3.—Crowfoot (Eleusine indica). 
Sometimes the ground is lightly rolled, but that is the only preparation made 
for it. After a crop of corn or cotton, one, or sometimes two, good y atches of 
crab hay are made on the land. On aecount of its rapid growth crab grass is 
peculiarly adapted for its functions as an after r crop. In good soil, when favored 
by sufficient rain, it attains considerable size. At Mobile it was seen nearly 
4 feet high. It is a tender grass and makes a sweet hay, but is slow to give 
up its moisture, and therefore rather difficult to cure. When allowed to get the 
better of the cultivator, it becomes a troublesome weed, bnt with ordinary care 
is easily subdued. With it are usually associated, in cultivated land, crowfoot 
(Eleusine indica), little crowfoot erm egyptiacum), and sometimes 
: Menten slover is scabra) and s grass (Cenchrus echinatus), also 
ue 3 I saw a za lawn sr 
| a „ one, composed almost st exclusively of this grass 
