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ducted in the following way: Small tracts of natural range land 

 covered with natural plants and grasses should be put under fence. 

 On these fenced areas seed could easily be gathered from the best 

 ones growing there. Seed from other countries could be sown 

 within the fence and tested. These little seed farms would soon 

 yield very valuable information, and on them small quantities of 

 seed could be raised for planting on other parts of the range. 

 When it had been shown in this way that reseeding with some 

 native or foreign forage plant is really practical and successful, 

 the little experimental seed farm could be enlarged and cleared of 

 brush, perhaps even irrigated if the location made this possible; 

 and seed could be raised in larger quantities and scattered more 

 widely. 



Of course the reseeded tracts would then need a year's rest 

 to give the new grass a start. Such experimental work as this 

 could well be undertaken by any stockman who owns his range 

 or leases it for a long term; but such investigations are more suc- 

 cessful when they are carried on under the direction of the scien- 

 tists employed by the Department of Agriculture. It may be that 

 in time the Nevada Experiment Station will secure sections of 

 range land here and there in the State, where with the help of 

 the stockmen larger seed farms can be established. 



If we had. in Nevada such a system of experimental grass 

 plats and farms as that described above, the stockmen of the State 

 could make use of it in the following way: By fencing small 

 tracts on the range, they would obtain good specimens of the 

 more valuable forage plants and grasses together with their seed. 

 Any stockman could then send specimens of these plants, cut at 

 the right season, to the Experiment Station, where a chemical 

 analysis would show their relative values as food for stock. The 

 Station men would also test the seed in experimental grass plats 

 and find out whether it could be sown artificially with profit. 

 The Station would then send back to the stockmen a report say- 

 ing that out of the plant samples and seeds sent in, several, per- 

 haps, are nutritious and hardy and easy to sow on the range. 

 The report would also include directions telling as far as posssible 

 the best and most practical methods of gathering the seed and 

 spreading the good plants. 



