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Bromus ciliatus. (See Swamp-chess.) 
Bromus inermis. (See Smooth Brome-grass.) 
Bromus kalmii. (See Kalm's Chess.) 
Broom-corn Millet ( Panicum miliaceum). 
This millet is quite 5 eultivated throughout the Northwest and is especially 
valuable because of the short season which it needs to reach maturity and because 
of the large yield of — an a hay plant it is much less valuable than the com- 
mon millet. The seed has been used to very good advantage for fattening hogs 
and feeding other farm animals. In some parts of the Northwest it is known as 
Hog Millet. Enormous yields of seed have been obtained in the eastern parts 
of the Dakotas. The seed is fed to best advantage when crushed or ground and 
it is often soaked for vel Though it is not the equal of corn as a food for 
fattening animals it may, under certain cireumstances, very well take the place 
of it. e plant ce Arai well, grows rapidly, and makes an excellent 
catch crop. 
Buffalo Pea (Astragalus caryocarpus and A. plattensis). 
These plants are more or less abundant on dry prairies Ac the whole 
Northwest. Astragalus caryocarpus is by far the commonest of the Buffalo Peas. 
is eaten by cattle and sheep, 1 the latter are said 
to be particularly fond of the fleshy plum like pea- 
pods. ese pods are also sometimes used as an arti- 
cle of human diet. 
Buffalo-grass (Bulbilis dactyloides). 
This famous range grass is still quite abundant in the 
regions west of the James Valley in both Dakotas. It 
ans as rare as most people suppose, being 
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Fig. 4. Buffalo. -grass (Bulb- : bL A : 
ills daetyloides). tinguished from the surrounding vegetation on ac- 
unt of their paler color. Stock are very fond of this 
grass, and especially in winter prefer it to any other native forage (fig. 4 
Bunch Wheat-grass (Agropyron divergens). 
„A bunch grass of the Bad Lands. It furnishes a large amount of excellent forage. 
The leaves remain green long after the flowering season and are much relished 
by all kinds of stock" (Brannon). 
Bushy Blue-stem (Andropogon nutans). 
This grass is scarcely less valuable than Big Blue-stem. It thrives on rather drier 
soil than that species, and, like it, is becoming more abundant every year. 
Calamovilfa longifolia. (See Big Sand-grass.) 
Calamagrostis americana. 
This grass is very common in moist meadows, particularly where the soil is sandy, 
and ‘affords a pesas amount of excellent hay,” if cut in proper season. It is 
called“ Sand- and “Yellow-top” in some parts of the Northwest. 
Calamagrostis canadensis. (See Blue-joint.) 
Calamagrostis montanensis. (See Montana Sand-grass.) 
Calamagrostis scribneri (See Blue-joint.) 
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