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Clarke Lewis, Cliftonville, Miss. : 



It grows on poor, sandy laud to a height of three to four feet ; stands drought 

 well, hut can he killed hy a slight overflow. It is valuahle as a soiling plant, hut 

 makes inferior hay. It is an annual, and if intended for a permanent meadow must 

 he cut only once and then allowed to reseed itself. 



H. W. L. Lewis, secretary Louisiana State Grange, Tangipahoa Par- 

 ish, Louisiana (P. O., Osyka, Miss.) : 



It is hardy and cultivated in small lots, doing hest on rich, sandy loam, yielding 

 two to three tons per acre. I have experimented more than any one else in my sec- 

 tion with forage plants, especially winter grains and grasses. Have used rye and 

 harley for winter feed, hut have given them up in favor of the Holcus lanatus; have 

 had this in cultivation for thirty years. It is a perennial, hut owing to its shallow 

 roots it dies out during our long, dry summer and fall from 50 to 75 per cent. One 

 lot kept the third year had less than 10 per cent, of the grass alive. Hence I have for 

 twenty years or more used it as an annual, sowing it with turnips, collards, or hy it- 

 self. A good way is to sow the seed broadcast and cover lightly in a late crop of 

 turnips after the last cultivation. After the turnip crop is removed the first warm 

 days in January or February will start the grass into rapid growth. It is cut fre- 

 quently through the spring for green feed, and after oats are ready to cut, is allowed 

 to mature seed. 



Prof. William R. Dudley, Ithaca, K Y. : 



It is hardy, hut does not grow wild here. It is common on some of the Elizabeth 

 Islands off New Bedford, especially oil Penikese, where many sheep are kept which 

 eat it freely. 



Dr. A. Gattinger, Nashville, Tenn.: 



This is spreading rapidly in East Tennessee, "especially in the mountains, but not 

 in Middle or West Tennessee. It makes good hay, but not the best. It grows more 

 luxuriantly here than in Germany. 



Prof. S. M. Tracy, Columbia, Mo. : 



It makes a weak growth and is of no value in Missouri. 



Dr. W. J. Beal, Agricultural College, Michigan : 



It is poor stuff where we can grow something better. 



Prof. James Troop, La Fayette, Ind. : 



It is hot little cultivated, though it is perfectly hardy and does well on our black 

 sandy loam. 



James E. Hebbrou, Salinas City, Cal., sends specimens of Holcus 

 lanatus and says: 



I inclose a few heads of what is known and sold in the seed stores here as Mesquit 

 Grass, said to have come from Texas, though I never saw any like it there. It 

 grows well on all kinds of soil in this locality, and a J along the coast within the fog 

 belt. If the seed is scattered in the timber or on the hillsides, it catches very read- 

 ily without plowing or harrowing, and its abundant seeds spread it very rapidly. 

 It comes early, and if fed down, keeps green a long time. When young it is liable 

 to be pulled up or broken off by stock feeding on it. 



Prof. J. B. Killebrew, in "The Grasses of Tennessee," says : 



It abounds on the marshy flats of the Cumberland Mountaius, but stock do not eat 

 it as well as some other kinds. For lawns or yards, however, it is unequaled. A 

 yard turfed over with this grass presents a most lovely appearance, and looks as if 

 spread with a velvet carpet. It is easily propagated, needing to be sown but lightly, 



