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Poa nevadensis. 
Found in a „low, but dry, meadow near Grand Forks." Said to be quite abundant 
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in this particular loeality and to yield a large amount of excellent hay 
appears to be worthy of cultivation. 
Poa pratensis. (See Kentucky Blue-grass.) 
Porcupine-grass (Stipa spartea). 
Ton in dry prairies in the eastern part of both States. From the James 
r west it is aay pida by Needle-grass (o comata). The spears“ 
are very injurious to sheep and often do more or less injury to other stock. The 
plant produces an abundance of long root leaves which are valuable for forage. 
When closely pastured it can not develop seed, and hence is harmless, and the 
„spears“ fall early, so that the hay may be obtained entirely free from them 
Prairie June-grass ( Keleria cristata). 
This, one of the earliest native grasses,is abundant everywhere on dry prairies. 
Certain forms of it are also common in moist meadows in some localities. It is 
an excellent grass for early forage, and often forms a large part of the upland 
ay as much more plentiful the past season than it had been for a number 
of Teens furnishing as much as 50 per cent of the forage in some places. Stock- 
men prize it very highly. It is called Prairie Timothy ” in some localities. 
Red Clover (Trifolium pratense). 
Cultivated in the older-settled portions, and often occurring as an escape in moist, 
protected ditches along railroads and waste places, where it seems to thrive quite 
well. It is being quite successfully grown in South Dakota in the Sioux Valley 
and in the Big Stone Basin. At Sioux Falls it has been grown with timothy 
for many years with very satisfactory results. ‘‘ Variousreports are given regard- 
ing its possible eultivation in North Dakota. The average opinion seems to be 
that it can not be successfully grown here. Personal observation teaches that it 
sown in moist upland meadows which are somewhat protected, 
and that it pes much better when mixed with timothy than when sown alone. 
It deserves to be cultivated more extensively" (Brannon). 
Red-top (Agrostis alba vulgaris). 
Cultivated more or less extensively in the moister portionsof both States. Professor 
Brannon says *it yields a heavy crop in low, rather moist meadows, and does 
quite well on higher, dry ground.” It does well in South Dakota in moist situa- 
tions, and should be given a prominent place for mixtures to be sown on boggy 
lands or láke beds. 
Reed Canary-grass ( Phalaris arundinacea). 
MM i in low, moist meadows throughout the Northwest. In some localities it is 
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tions and collections of this grass show that it is one of the most profitable low- 
land grasses in the State, and may be cultivated with confidence in moist or boggy 
soils" (Brannon). 
Reed Fescue (Scolochloa 5 
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ally oceurri ficient tity to form an important — be the e 
hay. It yields heavily, put i is not very rich in the more important nutrient sub- 
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