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tliat nearly all the fora,:;e plants nor: grovni in e:!^tensivo cultivation In the more 

 h-umid parts of o"ur co-'ontry v/ere broi-ight hero from abroad, They are not native* 

 TThy, the pl-.^nt erperts even tell ne tliat our famous Kentuclcy blue^grass, not 

 only isn't blue, but didn't really come from Kentucky to begin r/ith. It '7as 

 introduced from the Old TJorld. And by the vay that Kentucky blue grass is one 

 of the grasses T/hich have given good results on the moistBr. 'Testern mountain 

 grazing l?jids, 



Timothj'', ho"'ever, lias given jcst all around results T7hen tried out on '.Testcrn 

 range sites '.vhere the soil is moist. Quack grass classed as a troublesome v/eed 

 on farm lands in the East, seems to have possibilities for usefulness as forage 

 on range lands in some parts of the Uest, _ 



Wlien we speak of 'vestern range lands, horrever, tve are tailing in a lot of 

 territor--, and a lot of different conditions, moist and dry, hot and cool, long 

 and short groT7ing seasons. From vyhat I gather from these range investig.-^tors > 

 rild native grasses, taiae grasses from the East, yet untested plants from remote 

 sections of the globe may all be used to help bring bade the carrying- capacity' 

 of our T7estern ranges. 



It is a big problem, but a mighty important problem for the future of ou.r 

 livestock industry -- or that big part of it '.vith its home on the range. 



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AU^TOUITC E ■lEMT : The program to vrhich you have just listened came to you as a 



presentation of Station and the United States Department of Agriculture. 



7e T7ill have another visit '.vith Uncle Sam's Naturalists two weeks from today. 



