Financial Returns from Improving Pastures in the Southeast

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The progress of the livestock industry in the Southeast in the past has been seriously handicapped by the poor pastures that prevail throughout the section. One of the stock sayings, given as a reason for the lack of livestock development in this section, has been that “it isn't naturally a grass country.” Perhaps this saying is best countered by the fact that the cotton planters have for many years found Bermuda grass and other species of grasses one of the greatest enemies they have had to fight to produce their crops. Bermuda grass and lespedeza are today, as they have been for a long time, one of the best pasture combinations for upland pastures in the southeastern states. In recent years special attention has been given to the low-land pastures in this section by the experiment stations and by certain others, notably the Agricultural Department of the Central of Georgia Railway. As a result it has been found that a combination sowing of carpet grass, dallis grass, and lespedeza is splendidly adapted to these conditions.

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