. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. Of the many valuable wild grasses of our Westernplains and mountain regions, slender wheat-grass isone of the few that are promising on cultivated does well on land entirely too dry for timothy, andstands the most rigorous winters. Whether it possessesany advantages over brome-grass for cold, dry climatesis not fully determined. It does not become sod-bound
. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. Of the many valuable wild grasses of our Westernplains and mountain regions, slender wheat-grass isone of the few that are promising on cultivated does well on land entirely too dry for timothy, andstands the most rigorous winters. Whether it possessesany advantages over brome-grass for cold, dry climatesis not fully determined. It does not become sod-boundlike the latter, and may therefore prove to be betterfor meadows. As the seed is now available on themarkets it is probable that the possibilities of slenderwheat-grass will be determined in the near future. Itis worth trial. Agropyron divergens, the great bunch-grass ofeastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and northernIdaho, and a near relative of slender wheat-grass, isalso a promising grass for the driest cultivated landsin the region where it is native. It yields a fair cropof very good hay on drier lands than, any of the culti-vated grasses. Its seed is sometimes offered by Westernseedsmen, but it is somewhat GRASSES OP MINOR IMPORTANCE 189 Agropyron occidentale, the well known bluestemof Montana and Colorado, is the most valuable ofall the Agropyrons. It has been heralded as a greatdry land grass. It is adapted to a great variety ofconditions, but is most useful on irrigated meadowsin the vicinity of Harlem, Montana, where it is exten-sively cut for hay. In Colorado it constitutes an im-portant part of the upland hay. In the Dakotas,prairie sod, when plowed up and left to itself, is sooncovered by a growth of bluestem. In yield, on well-irrigated land, it equals timothy. Where its hay iswell known it usually sells at a slight advance overtimothy. Horses are especially fond of it, and it isvery nutritious. This grass is somewhat weedy incharadler, having strong
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