GRASSES OF MINOR IMPORTANCE 187 
that are heavily pastured carpet-grass will run out 
Bermuda grass. It produces very little seed, which is 
dificult to gather. An occasional method of seeding. 
land to carpet-grass is to mow it at a time when ripe 
seed is most abundant, and scatter the dry hay on the 
land to be seeded. This grass does not thrive very 
far from the Gulf Coast. It seems to prefer uplands, 
and thrives on either sandy or clay soils. It is a 
splendid pasture-grass, but does not compare with 
Bermuda grassin the amount of forage produced. ‘The 
distribution of carpet-grass is shown in Fig. qo. 
SLENDER WHEAT-GRASS (Agropyron tenerum). 
—Of the many valuable wild grasses of our Western 
plains and mountain regions, slender wheat-grass is 
one of the few that are promising on cultivated land. 
It does well on land entirely too dry for timothy, and 
stands the most rigorous winters. Whether it possesses 
any advantages over brome-grass for cold, dry climates 
is not fully determined. It does not become sod-bound 
like the latter, and may therefore prove to be better 
for meadows. As the seed ‘is now available on the 
markets it is probable that the possibilities of slender 
wheat-grass will be determined in the near future. It 
is worth trial. 
Agropyron divergens, the great ‘‘bunch-grass’’ of 
eastern Washington, eastern Oregon, and northern 
Idaho, and a near relative of slender wheat-grass, is 
also a promising grass for the driest cultivated lands 
inthe region where it is native. It yields a fair crop, 
of very good hay on drier lands than any of the culti- 
vated grasses. Itsseed is sometimes offered by Western 
seedsmen, but it is somewhat unreliable. 
