LAWNS FOR SUBTROPICAL REGIONS III 



IS annually scattered over the lawn at the rate 

 of about fifty pounds to the acre. This is 

 done about the end of September or the 

 beginning of October, first raking over the 

 surface of the soil and applying a top dressing 

 from the compost heap. This seed will 

 germinate in a week, and by the middle of 

 November will have formed a perfect lawn, 

 which will remain green all the winter. By 

 the following May it will have died, just 

 at the time when the Bermuda grass is 

 again starting into growth. It has been 

 found that ploughing in from seven hundred 

 and fifty to a thousand pounds of cotton seed 

 meal to the acre before sowing or planting 

 the Bermuda grass (which work is done in 

 January at the rate of six pounds to the acre) 

 puts the soil in excellent condition. Surface 

 dressings of cotton seed meal may also be 

 given after scarifying in the fall, previous to 

 broadcasting the rye seed. 



A HARDIER BERMUDA GRASS 



There is a specially hardy form of the Ber- 

 muda grass which has been introduced into 

 Oklahoma within the last few years, and 



