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which will be safer than alfalfa pasture, and 

 which will produce more than our native grass 

 lands. The percentage loss of cattle or sheep 

 pastured on green alfalfa is too great. Some 

 ranchmen are becoming interested in growing 

 early lambs for market on their farms and others 

 are milking cows where open range is limited or 



Plate XXV. Putting Up Native Hay in North Park. 



not available. Sage brush range or native weeds 

 do not give nourishment enough and also do 

 much to reduce profit and pleasure from the use 

 of the milk, cream, or butter, and milk from 

 cows on such pasturage is unfit for the manufac- 

 ture of cheese. There is real demand, there- 

 fore, for tame grasses to be sown for pasture 

 ii lone. 



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There are many pasture grasses which suc- 

 ceed in the West, and some are more suitable for 

 their localities than others. We have found 

 none which produce a large amount of feed with- 

 out irrigation or moisture conservation on our 



