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Mr. J. O. Stemmler, Dora, Coos County: 



The seed was sown l)roiuleast April 10, 1898. It did not make much of a crop 

 the tirst season and was not harvested until July 25, 1899. It grew about 2 feet high 

 and produced about 20 bushels of seed per acre. It may prove to be of great value, 

 as it seems to be adapted to this climate, ripens in good season, and makes a good 

 growth. 



WASHINGTON. 



Mr. F. A. English, Farming-ton, Whitman County: 



The seed was sown broadcast May 15, 1898, on a deep, black, loamy, summer- 

 fallowed soil. I secured a line crop, which was fully 5 feet high. The yield per acre 

 was about 2i tons of good hay. It is a very valuable grass for pasture or hay in good 

 loamy soil, which is neither too wet nor too dry. I would recommend it for sec- 

 tions with soils Uke mine. It should be grown extensively. 



WYOMING. 



Mr. G. A. Bell, Hyattville, Bighorn County: 



The English l)lue grass was very good. It stands drought well, but does not grow 

 high enough for hay. 



Mr. Robert Tait, Islay, Laramie County: 



This seems to be a better grass for pasture than for hay, l)ut it did very well for hay 

 considering the backward spring and cold summer. I cut about the 1st of September, 

 when it was nicely headed out and ripe. I think it a good grass for this climate. 



CURLY MESQUIT (Hilaria cencliroides) . 



A delicate, perennial grass a few inches, to nearly 1 foot high, 

 with slender, creeping runners and short, crisp leaves, which form a 

 matted sward that improves under an amount of abuse and hard usage 

 that would kill out less hardy grasses. It is one of the most valuable 

 of the grasses of the dry plains and mesas of the Southwest, and in 

 habit of growth closely resembles the true buffalo grass. During the 

 summer it makes a dense, leafy turf, maturing on the ground, and in 

 the fall and winter, when not rotted by late rains, affords excellent 

 pasturage for all kinds of stock. No grass stands the long dry spells 

 to which the Southwest is periodically subject better than curly mes- 

 quit. It commences to grow earlier in the spring than buffalo grass. 

 Pastures may he. sodded down to it by harrowing in bits of chopped up 

 turf in the early spring after a rain, when the ground is soft, and in 

 the course of a year a tine turf can be produced over the entire field. 

 It is one of the best grasses for use in the renovation of the ranges. 

 In dry summer weather it very often appears dead, but a few hours 

 after a rain it becomes green again. Seed is produced in abundance, 

 but it is difficult to harvest and of rather uncertain vitality. 



Eighteen packages of the seed of this grass have been distributed 

 for trial, but only one report has been received. 



