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(6) Forage land. —Lands which, under cultivation, are suitable in most locali¬ 
ties for the production of forage crops, such as corn, sorghums, millet, cow peas, 
or small grains cut for forage. 
Best types: 
(29) Bunchgrass. 
(100) Aspen. 
(48) Mountain weed. 
(41) Mixed mountain grass land. 
(20) Grama-buffalo and match weed. 
(18) Grama-buffalo grass and soap- 
weed yucca. 
Medium types: 
(30) Sand hills mixed. 
(27) Black grama. 
(8) Grama grass and chamiso. 
(35) Crowfoot grama. 
Poorest types: 
(89) Shinnery. 
(32) Black grama and tobosa grass. 
(33) Tobosa grass. 
(31) Black grama and wire needle- 
grass. 
(90) Willows. 
(28) Hairy grama, grama, and sand 
sage. 
(19) Grama-buffalo and mesquite. 
(80) Mesquite and mesquite grass. 
(10) Grama grass and match weed. 
(95) Southwest mountain brush land. 
(102) Conifer timber. 
(101) Woodland timber. 
(6) Grama grass, nigger wool, and 
sagebrush. 
(23) Niggerwool. 
(85) Yucca desert grass land. 
(98) Ceanothus cuneatus. 
2. Grazing lands. —Lands either unsuitable for the production of cultivated 
crops by arid farming or on which the production of native vegetation is more 
valuable than the crops that can be produced by arid farming. 
Best types: 
(46) Wet meadow. 
(34) Galleta. 
(38) Sacaton. 
(37) Tussock grass. 
(65) Saltgrass. 
Medium types: 
(78) Mesquite. 
(79) Mesquite and chamiso. 
(54) Shadscale. 
(55) Salt sage. 
(74) Creosotebush-desert grass. 
(87) Black brush grass land. 
(62) Greasewood-shadscale. 
Poorest types: 
(88) Nolina. 
(50) Small sagebrush. 
(51) Scab sagebrush. 
(69) Creosotebush. 
(97) Chamise. 
(76) Creosotebush-ocotillo. 
(75) Creosotebush and cacti. 
(72) Shrub buckwheat. 
(71) Encelia and California sagebrush. 
(59) White sage. 
(70) Creosotebush and bur-sage. 
(64) Grease wood and saltgrass. 
(57) Rabbitbrush and tussock grass. 
(92) Mountain mahogany. 
(58) Winter-fat. 
(63) Grease wood-salt sage. 
(99) California mixed brush type. 
(73) Desert brush type. 
(83) Atriplex lentiformis. 
(6l) Grease wood. 
(52) Hop-sage. 
(36) Hilaria rigida. 
(66) Pickle weed. 
(67) Seepweed. 
(68) Samphire. 
(82) Pluchea. 
(81) Farosela arborescens and Lepido - 
spartum squamatum. 
(77) Giant cactus and bur-sage. 
(60) Coleogyne. 
(84) Desert sage. 
(86) Black brush. 
