UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 201 



Contribution from the Bureau of Plant Industry, WM. A. TAYLOR, Chief, 

 and the Bureau of Chemistry, CARL L. ALSBERG, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



PROFESSIONAL PAPER 



May 26, 1915 



NATIVE PASTURE GRASSES OF 

 THE UNITED STATES 



By 



DAVID GRIFFITHS, Agriculturist, Office of Farm Management, 



Bureau of Plant Industry, and GEORGE L. BIDWELL, 



Chief of the Cattle-Food and Grain Investigation 



Laboratory, and CHARLES E. GOODRICH, 



Assistant Chemist, Bureau of Chemistry 



CONTENTS 



Page 



Introduction 1 



General Considerations 2 



Discussion of Species 



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WASHINGTON 

 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 



1915 



