. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Fig. 677. bunch-grass pasture in the far west. young, furnishes a supply of coarse hay. Several blue-stems together with switch-grass {Panicum), side-oats grama (Bouteloua), and western wheat- grass, supply the bulk of the native hay. All of thase are also valuable for pasturage, but the two chief pasture are buffalo-grass and blue grama. Other grasses of importance ar
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. Fig. 677. bunch-grass pasture in the far west. young, furnishes a supply of coarse hay. Several blue-stems together with switch-grass {Panicum), side-oats grama (Bouteloua), and western wheat- grass, supply the bulk of the native hay. All of thase are also valuable for pasturage, but the two chief pasture 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 (Hosackia; see the article on Vetch, page 658) and Beckwith's clover {Trifolium Beckxdthii). The former occurs more or less abundantly throughout the prairie region, while the latter is common in low meadows along the upper Sioux valley and other places in South Dakota. As elsewhere on the open ranges of the country, much harm has been done by over-siocKiQg bordering on the Great Plains region, blue grama is abundant and important. Sheep's fescue and snow- grass (Festiica) are also important on the high mountain ridges. Two native species of clover, Eocky mountain and Beckwith's, add greatly to the nutritive value of the meadow hay in some places. There are very many other plants, both annual and perennial, as well as a large variety of shrubs, which are of value from a forage standpoint, but cannot be here enumerated. The Great Basin region. This region is bounded on the west by the Sierra Nevada mountains, extending northward to include parts of Oregon and Idaho, and southward to northern Arizona. Sagebrush and rabbit-brush (Chrysothamnus) are the prevailing plants, except where alkali is present, when the vegetation changes. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned
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