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SOILS. 



tion from the rainy to the permanent dry season cures the 

 standing herbage into hay, which affords good grazing during 

 the rainless season. Moreover, the use of drought-resistant, 

 browsing forage plants, both shrubs and trees, serves to sup- 

 plement materially any deficiency in the supply of " standing 

 hay," especially in case the rains should toward the end be 

 unduly delayed. The same is true of the dried pods and 

 seeds of native herbage, which in some cases (bur clover, 

 lupins, etc.,) afford highly nutritious additions to the leafy 

 forage. 1 



1 See Rept. of the U. S. Commissioner of Agriculture for 1878, pp. 486-488 ; 

 Bull. Nos. 16 and 42, Wyoming Expt. Station ; Bull. No. 150 Calif. Expt. Station; 

 Bull. No. 51, Nevada Expt. Station ; South Dakota Station Bulletins Nos. 40, 69, 

 70,74; Kansas Expt. Station, Bulletin No. 102; New Mexico Expt. Station, 

 Bulletin No. 18; Montana Expt. Station, Bulletin No. 30; and others. 



