Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations . ^ the village cows. In such closelygrazed lands the princi])al grasses were bluegiass (Poa pratensis)and wild barley [Hordeum horeale). The latter is not much relishedby cattle. A very similar condition on closely grazed lands was noticed alsoat Kenai. The facts point to the probability of bluetop being a grassthat will give way under close grazing; but as bluegrass readilyreplaces the native grasses, permanent pastures of the best kind areassured. An. Rpt. Office of Experiment Stations. 1904. Plate Fig. 2.—Angora Goats, Wood Islan
Report of the Alaska Agricultural Experiment Stations . ^ the village cows. In such closelygrazed lands the princi])al grasses were bluegiass (Poa pratensis)and wild barley [Hordeum horeale). The latter is not much relishedby cattle. A very similar condition on closely grazed lands was noticed alsoat Kenai. The facts point to the probability of bluetop being a grassthat will give way under close grazing; but as bluegrass readilyreplaces the native grasses, permanent pastures of the best kind areassured. An. Rpt. Office of Experiment Stations. 1904. Plate Fig. 2.—Angora Goats, Wood Island, near Kadiak. ALASKA EXPERIMENT STATIONS. 275 The islands lying adjacent to Kadiak are very similar to it in char-acter, with the exception of Afognak, which, like the northwest cor-ner of Kadiak, is timbered with spruce. ALASKA PENINSTTLA AND ADJACENT ISLANDS. The whole region to the westward of Kadiak might briefly be de-scribed as being similar to Kadiak, but entirely devoid of timber, theshrubs more scrubby, and the grass less luxuriant. The land is none(he less splendidly adapted to grazing, a large variety of grassesoccurring. It is only in favored spots that the grasses are as luxu-riant as on Kadiak, though the species are for the most part the the hills occur extensive areas of ciowlxrry (Kinpetrum, nlf/rmn).locally called moss, which in jjlaccs seriously limits the amount ofgrazing. Much of tlie Alaska Peninsula is far too mountainous to be desira-ble for stock raising, but where valleys occur near the heads of numer-ous inlets the
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