of the land by encouraging the presence of certain soil bac-
teria that take nitrogen from the air and put it in the soil.
However, legumes are often particularly palatable to live-
stock, and are consequently grazed preferentially. There-
fore, in an overgrazed situation the legumes are often the
first plants to be lost.
 A pasture that has mostly hurricane grass can not be im-
 proved through just good management. The hurricane grass
 is very competitive and any desirable pasture grass that is to
 be introduced must be given a competitive edge. At pre-
sent the most reliable method is to remove the hurricane
pasture by plowing and then establish an introduced grass.
References:
Brown, F. and Michaud, M.W. 1986. Production and marketing of
 sheep and goats in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Presented at the
 22nd Annual Meeting, Caribbean Food Crop Society. St.
 Lucia. 25-29 August, 1986.
OAKES, A.J. 1968. Replacing Hurricane grass in pastures of the dry
 tropics. Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. 45:235-241.
U.S. Department of Commerce. 1983. 1982 Census of Agriculture,
 Volume 1 Geographic Series, Part 54 Virgin Islands of the
 United States. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau for the
 Census, Washington.


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