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(Vicia villosa). These are grazed when ready, but in 

 some instances the clover is cut for hay, the Bermuda 

 grass furnishing grazing later in the season. 



The grass may also be renewed in a sense by either 

 of the following methods: 1. Apply such commercial 

 fertilizers as the circumstances may call for. 2. Fatten 

 cattle on the pastures, and feed to these more or less of 

 such food as corn, cotton seed meal or oilcake while being 

 thus grazed. 3. Fatten sheep or lambs on the same, fed 

 liberally with grain or oilcake or with both. 



Eradicating. — At one time this grass was the dread 

 of the planters or of many of them because of the per- 

 sistence with which it grows on good soils subjected to 

 cultivation.. At the present time some persons who 

 grow it in the rotation do not try to completely eradi- 

 cate it. They believe that the extra cultivation re- 

 quired \to keep it in check in cultivated crops is more 

 than compensated by its influence in binding soils and 

 in other respects benefiting them. When Bermuda is 

 wanted again, enough plants remain in the soil to quick- 

 ly form a sod. The fact remains, however, that clean 

 cultivation is preferable to that which is partially clean, 

 hence it is well to be able to eradicate the grass should 

 this be desired. When such eradication is attempted, 

 climate, soil and season materially influence the meth- 

 ods to be adopted, and also the results. It is much more 

 easily eradicated when the winters are cold, in soils 

 that are low in fertility and in summers that are dry. 



The following methods of eradicating this grass will 

 prove more or less sucecrisful: 1. Plough on the near 

 approach of winter and expose the roots. Then grow 

 Grasses — 9. 



