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blind to their own interests. Many men are wear- 
ing out their lives in poverty, trying to grow fruit 
on land poorly adapted to fruit-growing, but emi- 
nently adapted to Bermuda- grass. 
* Louistana.—For winter and early spring, Texas 
blue-grass and the clovers seem to fulfil all the 
requirements, followed in summer by Bermuda- 
and crab-grass, the two best grasses we have. It 
was impossible during the wet summer to restrict 
the last two to the plots allotted to them, but to- 
gether, they covered the whole area of the (grass) 
garden, yielding several cuttings of hay for our 
work animals. 
* Mississippt.—This grass is the most valuable 
species we have in the South, and is too well 
known to need any description. It succeeds best 
on rich bottom lands and on the black prairie soil, 
where it will yield two cuttings in a season, mak- 
ing two to four tons of hay per acre. This hay is 
of the very best quality, being especially valuable 
for horses and mules.” 
J. S. Newman, in Bulletin No. 76, of the South 
Carolina Station, says of the plant: “This most 
valuable acquisition to our list of pasture grasses 
seems to have come from India, where it is called 
‘Dhab.’ 
"Until its great value as a pasture grass and, 
on moist, fertile soils, as a hay producer, became 
known, it was regarded as a pest by the cotton 
