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MR. HARRINGTON, of Utah: I think it advisable that we let Mr. 

 Farrell finish and let this question be asked. I think that the book thai 

 Mr. Farrell has published gives us a great many details. Let him finish 

 and then we can take this thing up orderly. It is like the Statute of Lim- 

 itations — the more you interrupt it the longer it runs. 



MR. FARRELL: Now, in relation to this Brome Grass. Several 

 years ago I was called to go to Canada. While I was there I saw a field 

 of about one hundred acres of this brome grass. I had never seen the 

 grass before, and I went to the farm house and I said to the gentleman, 

 "What is the name of this grass you have got here?" He said it was 

 brome grass. Some call it brome grass and others Bromus Inermis. It is 

 the same as Bromus Inermis. Said I, "Where did you get the seed?" 

 He says, "I got it back east. I was back east two or three years ago," 

 he said, "and I got it there and brought it out and sowed it on my 

 ground." . Says I, "I wish you would give me the address and I will send 

 and buy some; I want to plant a little to see how it will do on my farm." 

 He said, "I have got about a peck left, I will give it to you." I said, 

 "Thank you." And he gave it to me. I brought it down and told my 

 man to plow up a little piece of land, and we would sow this brome grass. 

 This was in the fall, and I had forgotten to ask the gentleman what time 

 of the year they sowed it, consequently I told him, "Now, plow it up 

 and we will sow it- now," and he did so, and of course the road as it went 

 along didn't go very straight, and he followed the road right along, and 

 sowed it on that piece of ground. It was very rich land, and the next 

 spring it only came up a spear here and another four or five feet and I 

 thought perhaps the seed wasn't very good, and I said, "I am not going 

 to let that remain here and lose that ground. We will plow it iip now, 

 and," I said, "we will make a straight line and will put a wire fence up 

 and I will plant two rows of onions — it will be splendid for raising 

 onions." So we plowed it up and put in onions, and there -was about a 

 little over half an acre of it, and we raised 127 sacks of onions off of that 

 piece of ground that season. In about two months after we had a good 

 rain and that grass came up just as thick as could be. I said; "I am 

 awful sorry I didn't leave that grass; we could have had a nice patch, and 

 I could have saved seed enough to have had all I wanted in a year or two." 

 In the spring, after the hay was all fed out, along through the summer I 

 used to turn my buggy horse in there and she would reach over the fence, 

 and there was plenty of timothy in the stack there. She wouldn't touch 

 the timothy but reached over the fence and got that brome grass and ate 

 it down close to the roots. I said to my man, "That is the best kind of 

 stock food; she will leave everything for that," and therefore now I have 

 got a piece of ground plowed up on the side of the mountain, on top of 

 the mountain where I am going to sow brome grass. It wants dry 

 ground, and it wants to be sowed eariy in the spring, and not in the fall, 

 and I would advise those that have dry farms on their high ground to 

 sow this brome grass, because it is a dry farm grass. The other day I 

 put a few trees, black elders and poplars into this piece of ground, and 



