good forage for sheep and cattle, and while it may be a blessing on a 

 sheep ranch, it is an undisguised curse on the prairie hay lands and in 

 cultivated fields. Considerable caution should therefore be exercised 

 with these foreign saltbushes lest they spread to fields and places 



where they are not wanted. 



Jared G. Smith, 

 Approved : Assistant Agrostologist. 



J. Sterling Morton, 



Secretary. 



Washington, D. C, March IS, 1896. 



