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It is best adapted to sandy loam or underdrained swampy ]and, where it yields 3 or 

 4 tons per acre at the first cutting, and about 1| tons the second. It lasts from 

 four to six years, and is not so easily subdued by cultivation as Timothy. 



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



It is cultivated in a few places in the State, proving perfectly hardy, and doing 

 best on deep porous soils where it stands drought very well, yielding perhaps 3 tons 

 per acre. It makes good pasture and lasts a long tiins. 



J. J. Dotson, Cedarton, Tex. : 



It is very fair for early spring pastures, and to cut for green feed when it first heads 

 in March, but it is not liked as hay. It is too light, and the seeds fallout too easily. 

 I have never known it cultivated. Thrives only on low bottom land. 



Prof. D. L. Pbares, of Mississippi, says: 



It is widely naturalized, and well adapted to a great variety of soils. On sandy and 

 gravelly soils it succeeds admirably, growing 2 to 3 feet high. On rich dry upland 

 it grows 5 to 7 feet high. It has an abundance of pereuuial long fibrous roots, pene- 

 trating deeply in the soil, enabling it to resist drought and cold and yield a large 

 amount of foliage winter and summer. 



These advantages render it one of the very best grasses for the South, both for 

 grazing, being evergreen, and for hay, admitting of being cut twice a year. It is 

 proabbly the best winter grass that can be obtained. Ifc will make twice as much hay 

 as Timothy. To make good hay it must be cut as soon as it blooms, and after cut, 

 must not be wefc by dew or rain, which damages it greatly in quality and appearance. 

 For green soiling it may be cut four or five times in favorable seasons. In from six 

 to ten days after blooming the seeds begin to ripen and fall, the upper ones first. 

 It is therefore somewhat troublesome to save the seed ; as soon as those at the top of 

 the panicle ripeu sufficiently to begin to drop, they should be cut and dried, when 

 they will mature and thrash out readily. It may be sowed in March or April, and be 

 mowed the same season ; but if sown in September or October, the yield the next 

 season will be heavier. NoUess than 2 bushels (14 pounds) per acre should be sown. 

 The annual yield of this grass in the Southern belt is probably twice as great as in 

 Pennsylvania and the Northern States. 



Bermuda Grass, Cynodon dactylon, PI. X. 



This is undoubtedly, on the whole, the most valuable grass in the 

 South. It is a native of Southern Europe, and of all tropical countries. 

 It is a common pasture grass in the West Indies and the Sandwich 

 Islands, and has long been known in the United States, but the diffi- 

 culty of eradicating it when once established has retarded its introduc- 

 tion into cultivation. Its value, however, is becoming more appre- 

 ciated now that more attention is being given to grass and relatively 

 less to cotton, and better methods and implements of cultivation are 

 beiug employed. Still, it seems probable, from the reports received, 

 that at the present time a majority of farmers would prefer not to have 

 it on their farms. It seeds very sparingly in the United States, and as 

 the imported seed is not always to be had, and is expensive, and often 

 of poor quality, those who have desired to cultivate it on a large scale 

 have seldom been able to do so. It is generally used as a lawn grass, 

 and to hold levees or railroad embankments, and for small pastures. 

 In some localities, however, it has spread over a considerable extent of 

 territory. Its natural extension into new territory has been slow, owing 



