ZACATON AS A PAPER-MAKING MATERIAL. 
of the grass for pulp manufacture in sections where there are large 
acreages of luxuriant growth and where the cost of collecting the raw 
material in commercial quantities is not prohibitive. 
Fig. 7.— Ad average tuft and two small tufts of zacaton grass. 
The writers have not as yet been able to obtain accurate figures as 
to the production of roots in pounds, but such figures as are available 
indicate a total production of from three to five million pounds per 
6826°— Bull. 309—15 2 
