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forage by the Census Bureau, is also important in this section, 

 while red top and orchard grass are common in parts of New 

 England. Cowpeas and corn fodder stand first in the South, 

 but in the drier regions, in western Texas, Oldahoma and Kan- 

 sas, sorghum and kafir corn take this place. Farther north, in 

 the spring wheat region, wild and prairie grasses rank first. 

 Alfalfa is the principal forage crop in that part of the corn belt 

 west of the Missouri river and in the irrigated regions on both 

 sides of the Rocky Mountains. On the high plateaus of these 

 mountains timothy stands first, and timothy and clover in the 

 western part of Washington and Oregon. "Grains cut green" 

 are the most important forage crop in California and Oregon. 



Fig, 22. — Leading varieties of hay. 



Fig. 23. — From the Geographif of the World's Arjriculture, 

 U. 8. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Farm Management, 



