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Cultivated forage crops of the Northwestern States
Cultivated forage crops of the Northwestern States Author:A. S. Hitchcock Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PR1-FACE. During the summer of 1901 Professor Hitchcock, under instructions from the then Agrostologist, Prof. F. Lamson-Scribner, visited the States of Kansa... more »s, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, California. Oregon, Washington, and Idaho for the purpose of studying conditions with reference to cultivated forage crops. In the course of his investigations he visited the experiment stations of the above States and interviewed many fanners and ranchmen, from some of whom he received much valuable information. Considerable information was also obtained from seedsmen and from dealers in grain and hay and farm machinery. The accompanying paper is a resume of the information thus obtained. It is recognized that in a large section of country rather sparsely settled, and particularly one in which agriculture is a recent development, many farmers and others have learned much that would be valuable to others in the same section of country. The principal object of this paper is to make common property of the individual knowledge of various farmers, ranchmen, and others, so that each may benefit by the experience of others. This is particularly important in a new country such as the region described herein. The paragraph relating to the "Inland Empire" and the last paragraph of the section devoted to velvet grass were written by the Agrostologist; otherwise the paper is entirely the work of Professor Hitchcock. W. .1. Spillman, Agrvxtol-ogist. , Offick Of The Achostoi.chust, rjton. I. C., (Mob?,- J4, 1902. COXT1-XTS. Page. Description of the regions 9 Great Plains 10 Rocky Mountain region 11 Great Basin 12 Interior valley of California 13 Upper Pacific coast region 13 The "Inlafcd Empire" 14 Forage crops 15 Alfalfa 15 General conditi...« less