. Catalogue : seeds for summer and fall sowing. V£TOH. OTHER GRASSES AND CLOVERS. Bermuda Grass {Gynodon Dactylon)—This grass is our greatest and best for paature and for hay, Succeeds best on rich bottom lands and on black prairie soil, where it will yield two cuttings in & season, making 2 to 4 tons per acre. It does not mature seed in this climate. It is to be sown in March or , when the ground has begun to be warm; prepare the land well for bo imall a sted, and sow on the suriace only. If convenient, roll the soil down first, then sow the seed, and leave the Iains to cover It. It
. Catalogue : seeds for summer and fall sowing. V£TOH. OTHER GRASSES AND CLOVERS. Bermuda Grass {Gynodon Dactylon)—This grass is our greatest and best for paature and for hay, Succeeds best on rich bottom lands and on black prairie soil, where it will yield two cuttings in & season, making 2 to 4 tons per acre. It does not mature seed in this climate. It is to be sown in March or , when the ground has begun to be warm; prepare the land well for bo imall a sted, and sow on the suriace only. If convenient, roll the soil down first, then sow the seed, and leave the Iains to cover It. It takes 2 to 4 weeks to come; requires some warmth. Weighs about 40 lbs. to bubhels. Sow 3 to 5 lbs. to acre. Price, 1 lb , |, postj aid. Beggar Weed (Desmodium Molle)—Highly recommended as a forag» plant for thin, sandy lands and pine barrens; vigorous growth, two to- five feet high, yielding largely for hay pasturage; nutritive value com- pares favorably with Red Clover, Cow Peas, etc. "On the sandy pin» lands of the South Atlantic and Gulf States it is probably the most favorable forage plant that can be grown. Its growth is dense, two tO' four feet high, sometimes seven feet; the forage crop abundant. But I fear it will not thrive well on rich land, or any other except where sand? formn the bulk of the ; Sow at any time after frosts are over, until middle of June, in drills 3 feet, apart, 3 or 4 lbs, per acre, or broadcast 10 to 12 lbs. per acre. Cover-. 1 to 2 inches. Wh-n two feet high may be cut for hay or green feei], and will produce successive crops, branching largeiy from the roots. May be paftured freeiv in late Sum-, mer and Fall. Weighs 60 lbs. to bushel 0. S. Bush, Washington Co., Ala., says: "Your seed give entire satisfaction. I will send you a good order for next year's plant- ing. I favor home ; Price on application. Meadow Fescue, or English Blue Grass {Feituca i'm^ensts)—Some- times called Evergreen or Randal
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