. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 454 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES (Astragalus), saltbushes, winterfat (Eurotia), plan- tains, altilaria, Stolley vetch, tallow-weed (ActineUa), tall tallow-weed {Amblyolepis), beggarweed, wild bean. Prickly pear and other cacti have been used for forage in this section by burning off the spines (page 226). The Great Plains region. The native grasses and forage plants of this region do not play such an important part in agriculture as formerly. There are sti'l, however, immense tracts of open prairie from which large quantities
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 454 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES (Astragalus), saltbushes, winterfat (Eurotia), plan- tains, altilaria, Stolley vetch, tallow-weed (ActineUa), tall tallow-weed {Amblyolepis), beggarweed, wild bean. Prickly pear and other cacti have been used for forage in this section by burning off the spines (page 226). The Great Plains region. The native grasses and forage plants of this region do not play such an important part in agriculture as formerly. There are sti'l, however, immense tracts of open prairie from which large quantities of native hay are cut. In wet and swampy places, slough-grass {Spartina), if cut when Tlie Rocky mountain region. The cultivated crops grown in this region are insignificant compared with the millions of cattle, sheep and horses that subsist on the summer moun- tain ranges and the winter desert feeding-grounds. The Red Desert of Wyoming alone is estimated to winter 300,000 to 500,000 sheep. In Wyoming some alfalfa is grown, but the bulk of the hay is made from the native grasses. The native meadows are composed chiefly of blue-grasses (Poa), wheat- grasses (Agropyron), brome-grasses (Bromus), rye-grasses (Elymns), blue-joint, needle-grass, hair- grass, mountain timothy {Phleum), mountain fox- tail (Alopeeurus), sedges and rushes. In the foothills. Fig. 677. Mountain or bunch-grass pasture in the far west. young, furnishes a supply of coarse hay. Several blue-stems together with switch-grass (Panieum), side-oats grama {Bouteluua), and western wheat- grass, supply the bulk of the native hay. All of these are also valuable for pasturage, but the two chief pasture grasses are buffalo-grass and blue grama. Other grasses of importance are wild rye, wild timothy, reed canary-grass, and needle-grass (Stipa). Two native forage plants, other than grasses, which have come into prominence because of their forage value are the wild vetch (Hosaekia; see the article on Vetch, page 658) and Be
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