EFFECTS OF TICK ERADICATION. 5 
cuttings should be used for planting. The carpet grass seed can not 
he purchased on the market, hut if the carpet grass is not grazed 
after July it may he cut in Septemher and the cut grass containing 
the seed scattered over the pasture lands. The grass may also be 
propagated by transplanting the sod. Once it gets started in a pas- 
ture it soon spreads over the entire pasture if grazed by cattle. Graz- 
ing and trampling seem essential to its best growth. The seeds of 
various kinds of clovers or grasses should be sown upon the pasture 
lands in order to extend the grazing season. In the Southeast, if 4 
or 5 pounds per acre of bur clover seed (in the bur) is scattered about 
the pasture in August and an equal amount of lespedeza and white 
clover in March, these clovers will help the pasture wonderfully and 
. -. — Steers on pasture in Virginia. (Courtesy of Virginia Experiment Station.) 
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will spread so that in a few years they will be found all over the 
ground. The bur clover gives good grazing in February and March, 
the white clover from April 1 to July 1, and the lespedeza from 
July 1 until frost in the fall. All of these grow well on Bermuda sod 
and reseed themselves each year. A little alsike clover, Paspalum 
dilatatum, and red-top grass planted on damp bottom lands produce 
excellent grazing. The seed of Paspalum are high in price and are 
low in germination, so it is rarely advisable to purchase seed. The 
best method is to strip the seed from plants by hand in October or 
November and sow them over the pasture lands at once, and imme- 
diately disk the land. A fair stand is often secured by scattering the 
seed on top of the sod and giving no further attention. 
