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buffalo grass {Bulbilis dactyloides), which has gained much of its credit 

 at the expense of jBo?t:^e?owa, the two being often confused by farmers 

 and ranchmen." 



Rescue Grass or Arctic G-rass {Bronms unioloides). — An excellent 

 winter-pasture grass, but not widely distributed in this section. The 

 specimen forwarded for identification was found in Nolan County, in 

 September. At that time its seeds had shattered out badly, and its 

 leaves were not green, nor was there much of it. Stockmen say, how- 

 ever, that earlier in the sea- 

 son it was to be found in fair 

 quantities in Mitchell, Nolan, 

 and Taylor counties. It has 

 been reported from some of 

 the other counties of central 

 Texas, where it is valued 

 both as a pasture and as a 

 hay grass. 



Arizona Millet ( Glmtochloa 

 macrostachya). — A tall, rather 

 coarse ujiland grass. It is a 

 valuable hay grass because of 

 its habit of growth, i>roducing 

 an abundance of fodder and 

 seed. It is one of the most 

 common grasses of this section 

 of Texas. 



Bermuda (Gynodon dacty- 

 Ion). — Probably not a native, 

 but now so common in every 

 part of this section that it is 

 regarded as one of its dis- 

 tinctive grasses. It grows 

 about the windmills where 

 it is freely watered tall enough 

 to be cut for hay. For graz- 

 ing purposes it is doubtful 

 if any other grass will furnish 

 more or better pasturage. If 



stockmen, instead of confining the propagation of it to their yards and 

 lawns, would put down extensive fields of it, they would be amply 

 repaid for the labor and exj)ense. One stockman who has a 10-acre 

 pasture well sodded with Bermuda grass says that he kept more than 

 a dozen calves and 4 head of horses on it month after month, and that 

 he frequently permitted as many as 10 extra horses to run on it 

 several days in succession, and that he never thought he had over- 

 stocked it. In the cities of central Texas it is being used to improve 

 the footpaths and lawns. Stockmen and farmers in the country are 



Fig. 2.— Blue Grama. 



