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valence of a severe drought. As they passed through a 

 cornfield in which some of the stalks were actually dying- 

 for lack of moisture, one of them [called his attention to, 

 several in that condition. " Yes," said he, I perceive the 

 fact — but it dies game." And so of the Japan clover, it 

 dies from severe drought, but rallies again as soon as thfr 

 tain sets in. 



3. "It is a good pasturage for stock, and I think would 

 make good hay, if cut and cured. This I intend to test the 

 present season. But I do not believe that our stock like it 

 as well as the native grasses, and doubt whether it is as nu- 

 tritious as the Bermuda. As cattle love variety, however,, 

 this may subserve a good purpose in that way. My opinion,, 

 however, is, from not very close observation in the matter,^ 

 that they would soon tire out on it exclusively. 



4. " It furnishes a large supply of vegetable matter to the 

 soil, and I believe will prove to be the best humus making 

 plant we have at the South, where so much is needed from 

 our clean cotton culture. As it is said to be difficult to- 

 gather the seed in large quantities, I intend to plow up the 

 surface where it has seeded, and rake up the grass and top 

 aoil, and sow this dirt over my oat and wheat fields, and 

 especially on the poor places. My opinion is that a most 

 luxuriant growth of this clover will follow, which can he- 

 turned under in the fall while green, and thus furnish not 

 only humus but nitrogen to the soil. 



5. " Another rare quality of this plant is indicated in the 

 name I have given it — king grass — in the fact that it abso- 

 lutely roots out and destroys every living plant in its wide- 

 spread path. Not even old Bermuda, which has so long 

 held undisputed sway over his circumscribed fields, can 

 resist its encroaches. I have a bottom long since given up 

 to the Bermuda. Recently I passed through it and found 

 that the Lespedezahad almost completely throttled it, though 

 like Mr. Dickson's corn, it died game, as here and there,, 

 peering above its enemy, could be seen an isolated sprig of 



