ve valuable, however, only for frostless regions.

Creeping Pasture Grasses.

At the present time we have under trial five creeping pasture grasses,
more or less like Bermuda in a general way. You are, of course, aware
that a pasture grass to be valuable should be able to spread naturally
and must be able to hold the ground. Naturally it takes time to
determine all these facts. The five grasses I refer to are as follows:

Blue Couch (_Digitaria didactyla_). This is much like Bermuda, but
produces abundant good seed. For lawns and pastures it promises to be
about equally as valuable as Bermuda.

Manilla Grass (_Osterdamia matrella_). This is especially adapted to
rather moist sandy lands. It grows very dense, and where it thrives
should be valuable.

Lovi-lovi (_Chrysopogon aciculatus_). This furnishes much pasturage in
India, the Philippines, and South China. The seeds are very abundant,
and each sticks into the clothing like a pin. But about Hongkong it is
used generally as a lawn grass. It is well adapted to dry sandy soils.
If it proves well adapted to Florida we can, I think, chance its
becoming a nuisance, because if it does thrive it will give much
pasture.

Nilghiri Grass (_Andropogon emersus_). This is the only creeping grass
of the genus Andropogon (which includes our broom sedges) that we have
yet found. I secured it in the Nilghiri Hills of South India. It looks
promising.

Kikuyu Grass (_Pennisetum sp._). This is native to the highlands of
Uganda, in British East Africa, and in South Africa has created great
interest. It looks much like St. Augustine grass. At Biloxi, Miss., it
has succeeded well. It looked very fine at Arlington, Va., but could not
stand the winter. This grass is said to be very nutritious, and I
believe that on the better soils of Florida it will prove a real
acquisition.

I mention these new things to give you some idea of what we are doing. I
might mention several others that look good to us, but it will be time
to speak when we have tried them further. In brief, we are scouring the
earth to find grasses and legumes to meet Florida's needs. We have faith
that the grasses and legumes exist, if we only can find them.

Gentlemen, in closing I must say one thing more. Our country is at
war--a war that will tax our energies and resources to the uttermost. No
more dangerous idea can be entertained than to minimize the task, or to
delude ourselves with the prospect of an early peac