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 W. B. McDaniel, Faceville, Ga. : 



Beggar-t:ck or beggar-lice grows well iu the southwestern part of Georgia, is an 

 excellent plant for forage, both greeu and cured, and is splendid as a fertilizer, build- 

 ing up land very rapidly. From the first, of July it will entirely cover the ground 

 the same season. 



R. J. Kedding, Atlanta, Ga. : 



Introduced from Florida, and cultivated in Southern Georgia for hay and as a 

 renovator of the soil, especially the latter. It is not hardy against cold, and is not 

 grown in Middle and Northern Georgia. 



L. W. Gentry, Anderson Court House, S. C. : 



The Desmodium, which grows here spontaneously (probably not tortuosum), is a 

 deep and tough rooted plant, hard to kill by cultivation, eagerly devoured by live 

 stock, growing on any soil, but not cared for in any way. I have seen it on rich, 

 moist land 6 to 7 feet high, but not thick enough to pay for harvesting. The roots 

 are so tough that the plow will seldom cut them unless it strikes them deep. 



J. S. Newman, director Experiment Station, Agricultural and Me- 

 chanical College, Auburn, Ala. : 



Florida beggar- weed was much. talked of some tenor twelve years ago, as the com- 

 ing forage plaut and soil-improver, and many planters experimented with it only to 

 find that they had introduced a nuisance. 



Whitfield Moore, Woodland, Red River County, Texas : 



That which I cultivated was from seeds from the Department of Agriculture, and 

 appears somewhat diiferent from the native. It has to be seeded annually. It will 

 not stand much grazing, but is a good fertilizer, and drought seems not to effect its 

 growth in the least. It is best adapted to light sandy land, and will grow a heavy 

 crop from 4 to 6 feet high on the poorest sandy land we have, and in the driest sea- 

 sons. The hay is very sweet and nutritious, and all stock eat it more greedily than 

 anything else I have ever fed. The only objection to ifc is the trouble of saving and 

 cleaning the seed. 



Japan Clover, Lespedeza striata, PL XV. 



This plant was introduced, in some unknown way, over forty years 

 ago from China into the South Atlantic States. It was little noticed 

 before the war, but during the war it extended north and west and has 

 since spread rapidly over abandoned fields, along roadsides, and in open 

 woods, and now furnishes thousands of acres of excellent grazing in 

 everyone of the Gulf States, and is still spreading northward in Ken- 

 tucky and Virginia, and westward in Texas, Indian Territory, and Ar- 

 kansas. It is an annual, and furnishes pasture onPy during summer 

 and until killed by frost in the fall. The small purplish blossoms are 

 produced singly in the axils between the leaf and stem, and the seeds 

 ripen, a few at a time, from about the first of August until the close of 

 the season. It reproduces itself from seed on the same ground year 

 after year, and on this account has been erroneously called a perennial. 

 It will grow on poor soils, either sand or clay, but prefers the latter. It 

 is better adapted to poor soils than Bermuda Grass, both from giving a 

 more certain and perhaps larger yield, and from being more useful in 

 restoring their fertility. On poor upland soils it is seldom cut for hay, 



