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close network of roots that will enable the crop to with¬ 
stand much trampling by cattle. After being pastured 
for a season, much hay may be cut from the meadow. 
Bermuda seeds may be broadcasted and covered with 
a roller. Roots may be chopped and scattered over a 
prepared seed bed and covered by disking. Another 
method of planting is laying off the furrows, dropping 
by hand the roots, and covering them with a hoe. 
Fig. 174.—Threshing peanuts with a small grain thresher. 
Wild Grasses are the source of a large amount of 
hay in many localities. It is generally more profitable 
to raise cultivated grasses in a system of rotation than 
to depend upon the crop of wild hay. Pastures should 
be kept free from weeds. 
Johnson Grass sods may be handled profitably by 
disking and planting winter oats. The crop of oats 
will ripen and may be cut the next spring before the 
grass is high enough to interfere. Then one or two 
crops of Johnson grass hay may be harvested before the 
fall seeding with oats. 
