FORAGE IN DRY RHGIONS 9 
for dry roughage in winter, and thus reduce the 
necessity for purchasing feeds. 
REGIONAL QUESTIONS 
The semi-arid regions of the West present 
peculiar conditions in relation to forage. In certain 
seasons, it is possible to secure good yields of the 
ordinary forage crops; but large areas which were 
formerly considered to be beyond the reach of 
profitable cropping are now productive, because 
of the improvements of methods and of the intro- 
duction of new plants. These lands have now a 
distinct crop- producing value, notwithstanding the 
shortage in rainfall. Advance in knowledge of the 
conditions may not make it possible to grow corn, 
but other well-established plants, that may be 
called “dry weather” plants, have been introduced, 
and are likely to be of greater service than those 
now regarded as better adapted for conditions 
of greater rainfall. Among these plants are the 
non-saccharine and saccharine sorghums, the first 
of which includes kafir corn and plants of that 
type, and the second the regular sugar-producing 
varieties. It seems desirable, in a work of this 
kind, that special mention should be made of these 
plants and their usefulness for these conditions, as 
their value has now been well established. 
In certain parts of the South, owing to the 
