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species are, d 2 wide 8 tue and number of 5 of great 
value on the ve pastures of the West. Perhaps the most important of these 
are: 4. e rattle pod; A. caryocarpus, the buffalo p pea and dern clover 
of the plainsman; 4. canadensis, Canada milk vetch; and A. adsurgens. The 
buffalo pea has fleshy eet which are produced in enormous quantities in the 
early spring. They are eaten by cattle and horses, and are nutritious. The dee 
have also been used as a vegetable. Besides these innocuous species, the genus 
contains a number which have attained wide notoriety as loco weeds, jolsqup di 
to stock, the worst and most widely distributed one being 4. mollissimus. Many 
of the species are worthy of cultivation 
Atriplex canescens. Shad scale. (Fig. 7.) 
A perennial shrub of the Pigweed or Saltbush family, often attaining a height of 10 
d 
them, but are said to give a bad taste to milk. Itis the principal forage plant of 
+ a hi range of ne in the Rout: 
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rid and brought into en 
especially on saline or alkaline soils. 
Atriplex confertifolium. White sage; 
Shad seale 
A native saltbush, growing on the high 
plains of Nevada and Utah, where it fur- 
is worthy of cultivation in attempts to 
E lands which are too strongly al- 
to produce better forage plants. 
Atriplex leptoc Slender - fruited 
2 saltbush; No. 2 2 aiia. (Fig.6. 
An Australian saltbush, which is being in- 
diffusely vba um slender annual, and 
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dition to the forage 1 adapted to 
the grazing regions of the West, and 
is reputed to withstand ene drought. 
Atriplex ee atum: Australian salt- 
bush; Saltbush. (Fig. 8.) 
Fie. 7.— Shad scale (Atripl ) A procumbent or prostrate much- branched 
r pe 1 herbaceous 
stems spreading 1 to 4 feet in every direetion. Thisspecies of Australian salt 
has become widely known wit he last ten years,it being one. of the best 
ales, Experiments conducted by the California Experiment Station 
have warranted the conclusion that the Aint of the plant is vastly better 
on alkali soils than e n ordinary dry soils. The saltbush takes up from ess soil, 
when it is grown where there is an excess of alkalies, enormous quantities of 
these deleterious Beas so that the PpS often amount to one-fifth of the total 
weight of dry forage. The amount o as great 
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