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desolation. As soon as rains cane the Buffalo grass made a remark- 

 able recover;'. 



Buffalo grass does not occur in our territory in sufficient 

 abundance to warrant seed collection. As a result we must rely on 

 a supply of seed from elsewhere. V,e plan, however, to collect 

 enough pistillate plants to establish a small area on the Albuquerque 

 Fursery with just enough pistillate plants to insure fertilization. 



Bromus anomalus, ITodding Brome. This specie? is very widely 

 distributed throughout our range, occurring at moderate altitudes 

 with a fair rainfall. It is perhaps our most drought-resistant per- 

 ennial brome. It is only fair as a soil erosion control plant but 

 males s good forage. This species is nowhere sufficiently abundant 

 to be collected by machinery in our region and up to the present 

 nothing more than samples of seed 'nave boon collected and no nursery 

 increase planting has been made. 



Bromus carinatus, California drome. In 1935 we obtained 

 seversl thousand, pounds of what we called d. polyanthus, at Flagstaff, 

 Arizona, f. polyanthus, according to Hitchcock, is merely a for?- of 

 3. carinatus. This species (B. carinatus), is very widely distribu- 

 ted throughout our range and far to the north and east. It is per- 

 haps our best perennial brome for moderate to high altitudes. The 

 comparatively low altitude of our projects has precluded the exten- 

 sive use of this species outside of the state of Utah. This season 

 we have contracted for several thousand pounds, all of which will be 

 used on Utah projects. 



This species is handled much as wheat or oats, being either 

 mowed or harvested with a binder and threshed. It is a crop that 

 can be grown readily by ranchmen. It is probably best to plant 

 seed in the fall at about ben to twelve pounds per acre. 



B romus tcct orum, Downy Chess, is a short-lived annual brome 

 grass introduced in the United States some years ago. It has spread 

 like wildfire in the warmer sections of the south and southwest. 

 Owing to the fact that it is so short-lived and that it dries up so 

 completely, this is all but useless* In fact it is generally con- 

 sidered a nuisance or a weed. It can usually be recognized by its 

 slender habit and its purplish tinge. 



*£al_amagrostis psoudophragmites, Fake Cane Grass. This exotic 

 has all the earmarks of a grass which may be difficult to control 

 if planted in cultivated fields. It is a rather coarse grass with 

 long rhizomes which sprout freely. Vfiilc it has some of the chara- 

 cteristics of -Johnson grass it is not poisonous to stock under any 

 condition or at any season. The growth is not so luxuriant as that of 



