. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 47 the recently introduced smooth or Hungarian brome which is being grown with such excellent success in the semiarid West and Northwest. Tussock-grass [Deschampsia avsintosa) is perhaps the most abundant and widely distributed grass in the native meadows of the Eocky Mountain region. It has a very wide altitudinal range. For example, it is abundant in wet meadows in the Gallatin Valley about Bozeman, Mont., at an altitude of about 4,000 feet, and ascends to above the timber line in the mountains on either side of the vall
. Bulletin. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 47 the recently introduced smooth or Hungarian brome which is being grown with such excellent success in the semiarid West and Northwest. Tussock-grass [Deschampsia avsintosa) is perhaps the most abundant and widely distributed grass in the native meadows of the Eocky Mountain region. It has a very wide altitudinal range. For example, it is abundant in wet meadows in the Gallatin Valley about Bozeman, Mont., at an altitude of about 4,000 feet, and ascends to above the timber line in the mountains on either side of the valley. On account of its tufted habit of growth it does not form an even sod, and hence does not make a good meadow by itself In most instances, however, it is accompanied by other grasses, such as the true meadow-grasses, redtop and blue joint, which fill in the spaces between the tufts, making a fairly good meadow sod. Some observers have reported this grass as of no practical value for either hay or pasturage, but such state- ments are not borne out by the reports of our field agents nor by the opinions advanced by the ranchers. While neither the yield nor the quality of the forage is equal to that obtained from timothy or redtop, there can be no doubt that the grass fills an important place Fig. is.—Short-awned Brome-grasa (Bromus hreviaris- among the native meadow faf-^>:«,tbe floret seen from the side; 6, , ^ . joint of tbe racliilla; d, gram; e, lower portion of pis- and pasture grasses of this til, showing lodioules;/, young seed or grain. region. It flourishes in wet, boggy places where many of the better grasses can not grow, and by its dense tufts of tough fibrous roots helps to convert these bogs into usable meadow lands. Moreover, continued mowing and pasturing have the eflect of reducing these tufts materially, so that with a few other grasses to act as fillers a comparatively even sod is produced. Such a condition of things may be seen in many of the mo
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