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of this grass have obtained a foothold in the garden, it 

 should be taken up, carefully getting every root. If the 

 field once becomes well set with it, the process of hand- 

 digging becomes too expensive. Heavy shading in the 

 summer has a tendency to reduce it, and nearly destroys 

 it sometimes, but like the cat it has nine lives and will re- 

 appear next spring. I have discovered a way of entirely 

 eradicating it at three plowings in dry weather. If yonr 

 land is set with Bermuda never turn it with a turning 

 plow until the grass has been destroyed. The best time 

 to destroy it is in dry, warm weather. Take a common 

 two-horse potato digger, with a shovel and fingers. (This 

 costs about nine dollars.) Let it go deep, and run fur- 

 rows about two feet apart, so as to uproot all the grass' at 

 first plowing. The fingers of the digger bring the grass 

 to the top of the ground. In five days go over again, run- 

 ning 2% feet, so as tD leave the field in ridges. Eeturn 

 again in five days and burst out these ridges, and if you 

 have no rain during the plowing, and ground remains dry, 

 you will have entirely destroyed the grass, if your field is 

 free from stumps and roots, so that the plow can be kept in 

 the ground. If you have roots and stumps hand-digging 

 will have to be resorted to, to remove it from around 

 stumps and roots. It is presumed that the averaged gar- 

 dener will realize the economy of taking out all stumps 

 and roots from the land to be used for trucking purposes. 



NUT GRASS. 



This is another pest, and when once is harder to de- 

 stroy than Bermuda. This is due to the fact that it pro- 

 duces nuts which when matured can not be destroyed by 



