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abundance of feed on medium to moist soils. The 

 stems grow two and one-half to three feet high, but 

 are not leafy enough to produce much hay. It is de- 

 cidedly bunchy in habit, each clump producing a great 

 mass of succulent root leaves which are greedily eaten 

 by all classes of stock. Prof. S. 'M. Tracy, for many 



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 W.iSHINGTON, ri. C. 



years direclor of the ^Mississippi Experiment Station, 

 regards this as one of the valuable f)asture-grasses of 

 the South. Its seed has recently been made available 

 in the markets. 



Guinea-grass (Pam'ntm f/iaxii/iui/i) and Para 

 grass (Paniciiin i/io/Zl-) are two grasses that have at- 

 trac'ted considerable attention in southern Florida in 

 recent years. They are the standard grasses of the 

 West Indies, where the green forage, particularlv from 

 guinea-grass, furnishes most of the roughage fed in 



