. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. S^&'^&mTU Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief. jiuy^Jwi*. Washington, D. C. December 18, 1918 CERTAIN DESERT PLANTS AS EMERGENCY STOCK FEED. By E. 0. Wooton, Agriculturist. CONTENTS. Page. The necessity for emergency feeds 1 The machines 4 Kinds of feed 6 Keys to plants described . 9 Other plants available 10 Distribution and density 11 Renewal after cutting 13 Qua ity of the feed 14 Quantity fed 18 Mechanical condition of the feed 19 Stock losses from using this feed 20 Cost of
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. S^&'^&mTU Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief. jiuy^Jwi*. Washington, D. C. December 18, 1918 CERTAIN DESERT PLANTS AS EMERGENCY STOCK FEED. By E. 0. Wooton, Agriculturist. CONTENTS. Page. The necessity for emergency feeds 1 The machines 4 Kinds of feed 6 Keys to plants described . 9 Other plants available 10 Distribution and density 11 Renewal after cutting 13 Qua ity of the feed 14 Quantity fed 18 Mechanical condition of the feed 19 Stock losses from using this feed 20 Cost of feeding soap weed 20 Importance of emergency feeds 22 Argument for feeding range stock 23 Summary and conclusions 25 THE NECESSITY FOR EMERGENCY FEEDS. It has been the practice for a long time in certain parts of the arid Southwest, mostly in what is known as the Big Bend region of southern Texas, to feed sotol* to range stock in seasons of scarcity of the usual range feed. The custom is probably one that originated in Mexico, where this plant is used more or less extensively for human food, as well as for the production of an alcoholic beverage where, consequently, its qualities are well known. Hitherto, the usual method of preparing sotol for stock feed has been to cut the stem off at the ground and with a machete or an ax split open the head, which is formed of the enlarged leaf bases and the thickened top of the stem. This process exposes the soft tissue of the head to the animals, and either cattle or sheep may be expected to "do the ; The past two seasons, 1916 and 1917, have been unusually dry in the whole of the arid Southwest from central Texas to the Pacific coast, and in consequence the normal crop of range feed did not grow. Farsighted stockmen in many cases sold off some of their 1 Sotol is a Mexican or Indian name for a species of Dasylirion. The species found in western Texas is Dasylirion texanum, while the plant of southern New Mexico and Arizona
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