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5 Semi: shoots rooting at the joints it drives out all other grasses, even 
Bermuda, but is easily eradicated itself by plowing under. At St. Au 5 
Wiss w grows about the old Spanish fort, Bermuda ae was getting t 
better of it. Judge Long plants the grass as Bermuda is usually ante 
plowing with a hand plow, and placing short pieces of the stems in the fur- 
rows, and cevering lightly with soil. It is a tender, succulent grass, in good 
soil making a considerable quantity of 8 and is said to be 3 for 
sheep pastures. It owes its name „mission grass” to its occurrence about the 
old missions in Florida and other States, where it was doubtless ge by 
the Spaniards. 
SWEET POTATO. — Capt. W. W. Woolsey, of Aiken, considers sweet potatoes excellent 
for a feeding about a peck each day with half rations of corn or oats. 
The vines 5 dries on racks aud feeds as hay. 
TEXAS BLUE GRASS (Poa arachnifera).—Judge R. C. Long stated that this grass 
flourishes in the stiff red-clay soil of Leon County, Fla., but does not thrive in 
thin sandy soils. Capt. W. W. Woolsey, at Aiken, has had good success with this 
grass, which affords excellent grazing late in winter and in spring. On hislawn 
itgrows with Bermuda, neither grass e to crowd out the other. It took 
him about three years to get a good stan it. 
TRIPSACUM DACTYLOIDES.—A farmer at pitidos told me that this makes good 
fodder for horses if cut when young. 
UNIOLA PANICULATA (Sea oats). pa in the sand of e a little way 
above high tide. It is an excellent sand binder, it being very strong 
and penetrating e into thé soil, much like those of marram grass, of which it 
is the Southern analogue. On St. Georges dnt off Apalachicola, Fla., I 
ma ae leaves cropped by cattle, but it is too tough and dry to be of any 
mpo e as a forage plant. 
WATER GRASS daa proliferum geniculatum).—This is a common grass of moist 
ground in the low country, found usually in alluvial river bottoms. It isa large, 
succulent grass, a rank grower, sometimes 7 feet high, the stout stems rooting at 
the lower joints. It produces a large bulk of stem and leaves, and is perhaps the 
most important native hay grass for bottom lands in the South. Is known and 
highly valued almost everywhere in that section. A physician of Thomasville, 
Ala., considers this, next to crab grass, the best forage plant of that part of the 
country 
WIRE GRASS, (See Aristida stricta.) 
