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Bermuda grass is more easily eradicted from sandy land than from 
clay, and on such land may be more safely introduced into a rotation. 
To kill it out it should be rooted up or plowed very shallowly some time 
in December and cultivated or harrowed occasionally during the winter. 
If severe freezes occur most of it will be killed by spring; or it may be 
turned under deepiy in spring and the land cultivated in some hoed 
crop or one which will heavily shade the ground. 
M. M. Martin, Comanche, Comanche County, central Texas: 
Bermnda grass grows on any kind of soil in Texas, but will not stand the tramping 
of stock on loose, sandy soil. It is hard to beat for a grazing grass, though long 
droughts cause it to dry up. It is not very early to start in the spring. 
Whitfield Moore, Woodland, Red River County, northeastern Texas: 
Bermuda stands dronghts well, is a good fertilizer, grows well from fifteen to twenty 
years from one planting, then only needs plowing to renew it. It is tolerably easily 
subdued by shallow turning in early winter, so that it will freeze. It yields heavy 
crops of hay and can be mowed three times a year. It is the finest grass I have ever 
seen for summer grazing, and when inclosed from stock during the summer it is fine 
winter grazing. It will stop washing, and cause low, wet land to fill up and become 
dry. 
E. W. Jones, Buena Vista, Miss. : 
Bermuda has been a great terror to planters until recently. If plowed shallow late 
in the fall, and allowed to freeze during winter, there is no trouble to cultivate a crop 
the next season. The ground becomes perfectly mellow, and though the grass is not 
dead, it does but little injury to the crop. 
E. Taylor, Pope’s Ferry, Ga.: 
Nothing kills it except severe freezing. It is the best of all grasses, and thriveson 
any soil, but best on clay. It furnishes good pasture from May until the middle of 
November. For winter grazing bur clover is taking its place. The yield of hay is 
about 2 tons per acre. It wil] reclaim the poorest lands, and is not very difficult to 
subdue. It ripeus seeds in this State sparingly. 
J. B. Wade, Edgewood, DeKaib County, northern Georgia: 
This is about the most northern limit at which Bermuda grass grows in this State. 
It is beginning to be highly appreciated both for grazing and for hay. It stands 
drought well, keeping green from May until November. It miakes good hay, and ean 
be cnt two or three times a year, producing on an average 23 tons of hay per acre, 
While this is the most northern limit of Bermnda grass, it is also the most southern 
limit of blue grass. The two growing together on the same land produce a most per- 
fect pasture, as the blue grass is green nearly all the fall, winter, and spring months, 
while during the heat of summer, which prevents the growth of the blue grass, the 
Bermuda flourishes. The two together in good, strong soil make a perfect pasture, 
good all the year around. 
Prof. S. M. Tracy, now Director of the Mississippi Agricultural Ex- 
periment Station, formerly of the Agricultural College, Columbia, Mo.: 
It has been in cultivation near St. Louis, in one locality only, for many years. It 
barely survives the winter and would doubtless be destroyed by pasturi ng. I have 
noticed it very carefully about New Orleans, where it is by far the most valuable 
