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possible for a plow to pass through it. It will throw its runners over a rock six feet 

 across and hide it from view, or it will run down the sides of the deepest gully and 

 stop its washing. It does not, however, endure shade, and in order to obtain a good 

 stand, the weeds must be mown from it the first year. It would be a good grass to 

 mix with Blue Grass, as when it disappears in wiuter the Blue Grass and White Clove r 

 would spriug up to keep the ground in a constant state of verdue. This experiment 

 has been tried with eminent success. It grows luxuriantly on the top of Lookout 

 Mountain, having been set there many years ago. This mountain is 2,200 feet high, 

 and has, of course, excessively cold winters. 



Mr. Affleck, in a letter published in the work above mentioned, 

 says: 



The time is not far distant when all the rough feed consumed on plantations will 

 be made of this grass, and when the planter will consider his hay crop of more im- 

 portance than his sugar or cotton. No other grass will yield such an amount of 

 valuable hay, surpass it in nutritious qualities, or support on an acre of pasture such 

 an amount of stock. Its extirpation,, however, when once established, is almost im- 

 possble, though to check or weaken it so far as to grow a grain or cotton crop is easy 

 enough. To do this, pursue the course of the best farmers of Kentucky in their 

 management of Blue-grass sod: With a good breaking plow, having a wheel and 

 coulter, and a stout team, turn over evenly and nicely a sod 4 inches thick and as 

 wide as the plow and horses are capable of, following in the same furrow with an 

 other plow, which casts the dirt well, and throws out as much of the fresh earth on 

 top of the sod as possble, or the depth of the soil will admit. The crop that follows can 

 be easily tended without disturbing the sod, the gradual decay of which will greatly 

 benefit the crop. The crop should be a shadiug one if possible, such as corn, or peas, 

 or pumpkins, or winter oats followed by peas. To the careful, judicious farmer, who 

 wishes to improve his land and his stock, and who does not expect to grow anything 

 without trouble, and who uses good plows and keeps a stout team, and that in prime 

 order, we earnestly recommend to try an acre of this grass in a situation where it 

 cannot readily spread. To the careless farmer we say, touch it not. 



In addition, the following brief points are given from various replies, 

 showing the appreciation in which this grass is held. The State is in- 

 serted when material to the evidence : 



"Not wanted" (California) ; "Not good for calves;" "Too late iu 

 spring" (Texas); "Best on sandy bottoms" (Mississippi); "Killed by 

 shade;" "Best on uplands" (Arkansas); "Seeds here" (California); 

 " Only effigies of seed " (Georgia) ; " Best grass in the world but regarded 

 as a curse " (Alabama) ; "Little here outside of towns" (Texas); "Of 

 no use" (Illinois); " Common in damp places" (California) ; "Too long 

 to get a start ; " " Especially good for sheep ; " " Total failure " (Kansas); 

 "Tried it, but failed," (New Mexico); "Our only summer pasture" 

 (Texas) ; " Our greatest blessing " (Louisiana) : " Our seed comes from 

 Cuba;" "Prejudice giving way;" "Growing in favor;" "Dou'tdo well" 

 (California); " Known only in one locality" (Connecticut) ; "A humbug 

 except in bottom lands" (Florida); " Eed-clay uplands best" (North 

 Carolina) ; " Best on light soils" (Virginia) ; " Largely cut for hay on the 

 coast" (Georgia) ; " Have planted 400 acres of it J> (Louisiana) ; " Called 

 wire-grass ; " " Stops washes ; " " Oar best pasture" (Virginia) ; " The 

 more it is plowed the more it spreads." 



