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at Mobile I noticed a fine growth of it, averaging 3 to 34 feet in height. Opin- 
ions differ as to its value. It is a rather tough grass, and becomes quite hard 
when growing in dry soil. I was told by several close observers that cattle will 
nottouchit when grazing; and I noticed at Norfolk 5 cows browsing along the 
roadsides refused Tarasi altogether. Yet the general opinion is that, when 
cut young, it makes excellent hay, though ues toc 
ERAGROSTIS CONFERTA.—Dr. Mohr tells me that this grass has some abes for forage, 
being the only species of Eragrostis in the Southern States of any economic 
wo ord 
ERIOCHLOA MO —This grass is IPE in the salt marshes of the St. Johns 
River near Jacksonville Fla. It is a coarse, stout grass, NT 4 or 5 feet 
high, and would not produce a em bulk of forage. vet is probably the best 
grass that will Pos in brackish soil thereabouts, an: night tbe useful as a con- 
stituent of salt-marsh hay. It does not growin great lantity in any one place 
and would be hard for cattle to reach, as it makes its home along ditches and 
among bushes on the edges of the marshes, or with the rushes and cord grass 
that cover the marshes themselves. It might be worth cultivating in brackish 
meadows where better grasses could not be grown successfully. I did not learn 
that it had been tested as to its nutritive qualities, nor do I know of any Eng- 
lish name for it. 
GERMAN MILLET, OR a GRASS (Setaria italica aa —Does well at 
Apalachicola and mak t fodder. good it was seen at Savan- 
nah. Largely cultivated about Augusta, Ga. Seems iu be well adapted to the 
soil and climate of the Gulf and South Lenses States, and is much esteemed as 
fodder for horses. 
HOLCUS LANATUS (meadow soft grass, velvet grass).—Abundantly naturalized along 
railways in western North Carolina and east Tennessee, and is frequent by road- 
sides near Norfolk, Va., preferring moist ground. Ihave seen it nowhere grazed- 
y cattle : 
Hiscantuw & RASS. (See German millet 
INDIAN CORN.—Nothing that is new can be said about this, which is beyond ques 
tion the most M Cum. fodder plant of the Southern States. 
ITALIAN RYE GRASS (Lolium italicum).—Judge R. C. Long, at Tallahassee, says he 
has had bes success wi is grass. 
JAPAN CLOVER (Lespedeza striata).—For pasturage Japan clover, or, as it is more 
considered. It is rarely sown, but grows without cultivation, and soon covers 
the most sterile soils. On poor soil it is fit only for grazing, but in xil fertile 
ground it becomes large enough to cut for hay. Cattle are said to prefer it 
to any other plant, except, perhaps, Bermuda, whether for pasturage or fodder. 
nearly or quite absent. At Aiken, S. C., it was growing abundantly in the pine 
uberes 3 W. W. Woolsey, at Aiken, told me that if Lespedeza rud be dee 
k with other kinds eattle invariably eat the Lespedeza 
Dibble, who has a large dairy frio near Aiken, i is sowing a large ied of v 
Lespedeza. At Knoxville, Tenn., it is claimed that this Lespedeza 
drives out Loss sedge. 
) O SS (Sorg halepense).—Doubtless the most widely cultivated peren- 
. nial hay grass in the South. In the bulk of forage produced it surpasses any 
plant eo Like mos dt 
and a Its great drawback is the duisi of eradicating it when it once 
