Dry Farming In Colorado 
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One method of marketing the dry-land corn crop 
PASTURES AND NATIVE HAYS 
Native Hays .—Many of the native grasses of the plains makt 
very nutritious hays. But, except in low places or swales, the 
growth is normally insufficient for hay. The wheat grasses, blue- 
stem, and gramas are the most common native hay species. 
Native Pastures .—There are still many places on the plains 
where there are large areas of native pasture. Where these na¬ 
tive pastures are open range, little may be done to improve their 
carrying capacity. Where under fence and private control, it is 
possible to very materially improve carrying capacity by letting 
part of the pasture rest while the other portion is grazed. 
Some improvement may often be made by seeding in sweet 
clover. This is especially true of the sandier localities. 
In the high Divide country brome grass ( Bromus inermis) 
does well. Here it may be seeded in the native pastures with a 
disk drill. The wet valleys in the sand-hills often produce brome 
quite well. Except under the conditions just mentioned, brome 
grass is very indifferently successful or a total failure. 
Tame Pastures .—Tame pastures are among the most serious 
and difficult problems of dry farming. 
No tame grass is ever successful. Brome and orchard grass 
may be grown in the few limited sections above mentioned. But 
they are not generally adapted. Yet they are the best tame grasses 
with which experiments have thus far been conducted. 
