CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introduction 7 



General topographical features of the region 11 



The soil 13 



The water supply 15 



Present aspect of the forage problem 16 



Forage oonditious on the range of western South Dakota and northeastern 



Wyoming 20 



Cheyenne Agency to Belle Fourche River 20 



Butte Post-office to Devils Tower 23 



Devils Tower to New Castle 26 



The southern Black Hills i-egion 28 



EapidCity to Pierre 29 



Cultivated grasses and forage plants 29 



Timothy 30 



Redtop 31 



Kentucky l)lue grass 31 



Smooth or Hungarian brorae-grass 32 



The fescues 33 



Orchard grass 34 



Alfal fa 34 



Red clover 35 



Alsike - 36 



"White clover 36 



Miscellaneous forage crops 37 



Native grasses and forage plants 38 



Native meadow or hay grasses 38 



Lowland meadows 38 



Mountain meadows 44 



Native pasture grasses . 50 



Grasses of the plains 51 



Grasses of the foothills and mountains 58 



Native clovers, vetches, and lupines 60 



The clovers 60 



The vetches and vetchlings 62 



The lupines 63 



The milk-vetches 64 



Rushes and sedges 65 



Rushes 65 



Sedges 66 



Miscellaneous native forage plants 66 



The bitter sages 67 



The salt-sages 67 



Winterfat 68 



Greasewood 69 



Miscellaneous -, 69 



Improvement of the ranges 71 



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