. 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. 454 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES (Astraffalus), saltbushes, winterfat (Hitrotiu). plan- tains, altilaria. Stolloy vetch, tallow-wood (AdincUd), tall tallow-weod (Amhlw>lri)i!<), bocrrrarwo.'d, wild Wan. Prickly poar and other cacti have been used for forage in this section by burning otf the spines (page 22G). The Great Plains region. The native grasses and f
. 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. 454 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES (Astraffalus), saltbushes, winterfat (Hitrotiu). plan- tains, altilaria. Stolloy vetch, tallow-wood (AdincUd), tall tallow-weod (Amhlw>lri)i!<), bocrrrarwo.'d, wild Wan. Prickly poar and other cacti have been used for forage in this section by burning otf the spines (page 22G). 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 wot and swampy jilaces. slough-grass (Spartina), if cut when The 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 Wvoming 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 (Eh/nuis), blue-joint, needle-grass, hair- grass, mountain timothy (Phlcum), mountain fox- tail {Alopecurus), sedges and rushes. In the foothills. r^-^-^.-^-ffif^'^^^^^r^:'^'. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. New York : Macmillan
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