256 DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS 
In addition to all these should be mentioned that horde of wild 
things growing together and constituting such great natural pas- 
tures as the original prairie range of our own western states and 
their equivalent on the pampas of South America. Unfortunately 
none of these native prairie grasses has been domesticated, and 
most or all of them seem on the road to early extinction. This 
seems a pity, especially when we recall the fact that neither tim- 
othy, blue grass, nor redtop, nor yet any of the English grasses, 
seems fully adapted to the soil and climate of our prairie states. 
England is the great home of grasses, native and introduced. 
Its moist, cool climate is especially favorable to the hay and 
pasture grasses. The tall oat, sweet vernal, and the more use- 
ful festucas are all well known and all have been long recovered 
from the wild. We should do as much for our native grasses, 
and fame if not fortune awaits the man who will develop from 
American native varieties even one really good hay or pasture 
grass suited to our conditions, 
