. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Contribution from the Forest Service, Henry S. Graves, Forester. In cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, W. A. Taylor, Chief October 27, THE RESEEDING OF DEPLETED GRAZING LANDS TO CULTIVATED FORAGE PLANTS. By Akthub W. Sampson, Plant Ecologist. (With prefatory note by Frederick V. Coville, Botanist, in Charge of Economic and Systematic Botany, Bureau of Plant Industry.) PREFATORY NOTE. In the investigations planned in 1907 for the improvement of overgrazed lands on the National Forests provision was ma
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Contribution from the Forest Service, Henry S. Graves, Forester. In cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, W. A. Taylor, Chief October 27, THE RESEEDING OF DEPLETED GRAZING LANDS TO CULTIVATED FORAGE PLANTS. By Akthub W. Sampson, Plant Ecologist. (With prefatory note by Frederick V. Coville, Botanist, in Charge of Economic and Systematic Botany, Bureau of Plant Industry.) PREFATORY NOTE. In the investigations planned in 1907 for the improvement of overgrazed lands on the National Forests provision was made for experiments in the artificial seeding of areas in which the natural vegetation had been destroyed or had become relatively unproductive. In the year 1902 experiments in the reseeding of mountain meadows had been begun by Mr. J. S. Cotton, of the Bureau of Plant In- dustry. A report on these experiments was published in 1908 as Bulletin 127 of the Bureau of Plant Industry, under the title " The Improvement of Mountain ; The conclusions were that the artificial reseeding of these moist areas was practicable and that timothy and redtop were the most promising grasses for such situa- tions. Continued observation of the original plots, by Mr. Cotton, up to the year 1911, confirmed and extended the earlier conclusions. The reseeding experiments with cultivated forage plants, begun by the Forest Service in 1907 in cooperation with the Bureau of Plant Industry, are over 500 in number and were located in many kinds of situations. The results are consequently of value as show- ing not only that reseeding is practicable a«nd profitable but especially as showing in detail to what conditions of soil and moisture it is applicable, under what conditions reseeding is bound to fail, what grasses and clovers have been successful and are best suited to par- ticular situations, the best time of year and the best methods of sowing the seed to secure a good stand, and the e
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