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means can be found to improve the could have any practical value must 

 summer range the benefit vifill be felt find other instruments than the tools 

 from Canada to Arizona and New upon which the farmer ordinarily re- 

 Mexico, so that the experiments are of lies. The sharp cutting hoofs of sheep 

 broad importance. will be the only harrow used. 

 In the higher parts of the Imnaha 



National Forest good late summer 

 pasture for sheep is valuable. Snow 

 covers the ground nine months ol the 

 year, and the grass that grows must 

 grow quickly. The natural pasture on 

 these high mountain meadows is fairly 

 good, but there is room for improve- 



The meadows selected for sowing will 

 first be grazed as short as sheep can 

 crop the native grass. Since» the 

 ground is wet, it will be much cut up 

 by sheep. Clover, timothy, redtop, or 

 bluegrass seed will then be sown broad- 

 cast, and the sheep will be driven to 

 and fro across it until the seed is 



ent. 1 he native bluegrass does not beaten well into the soil. This will be 

 produce a sod,_ but grows m bunches ^^^^ j^^^ .^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^^ 



A sod or turf is wanted, and some of 

 the meadows will be seeded with well- 

 known species to test whether they will 

 grow and bring the desired result. Tim- 

 othy, redtop, bluegrass, and a clover 

 called Alsike, originally brought from 

 Sweden, will be tried. Eight or more 

 patches of from 3 to 20 acres each, will 

 be seeded. 



It is a wild and rugged mountain re- 

 gion with few trails, and those very dif- 

 ficult. Harrows or other agricultural 

 machinery could not be taken in, ex- 

 cept on the backs of pack animals. 

 Plainly, any method of seeding which 



seed will lie dormant until next sum- 

 mer's sun melts the snow and warms 

 the ground. Whether it will grow, and 

 mature a crop in three months, re- 

 mains to be seen. If it will, one prob- 

 lem of mountain pasturage will have 

 been solved, for a much larger quantity 

 of forage will be furnished by these 

 plants than the native growths supply. 



If this grass sowing on the high Ore- 

 gon mountains is successful, it will 

 open the way for similar range de- 

 velopment elsewhere. There is hardly 

 a limit to the possibilities presented. 



The accompanying views are re produced from I'Apiculture Nouvelle, 

 and give an interesting glimpse of migratory bee culture in the moun- 

 tains of Russia, from which comes the Caucasian 'bee so much lauded of 

 late in some American journals. 



Transporting Bees in the Caucasian .Mountains. 



