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Title: Horses, saddles and bridles
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Carter, William H. (William Harding), 1851-1925
Subjects: Cavalry Horses
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : The Lord Baltimore Press, The Friedenwald Company
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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t is not suited alone for grazing, except for a few minutes ata time, as it is apt to bloat both horses and cattle. It yields abouttwo tons or more to the acre, and will grow best on clay loam,although it thrives even on sandy soil. Alfalfa.— (Figure 120.) This plant is known in Europe asLucerne, and has been cultivated for hay since ancient times. Itis not so hardy as red clover, and not adapted to cold climates.It thrives best in a permeable soil, and is well adapted to, andreaches its highest development in the warm and dry climate ofthe Southwest, where irrigation is used. Its roots sometimespenetrate fifteen to twenty feet in the soil; it is best used as asoiling plant, but is much used as hay in California, the RockyMountain region, New Mexico, Arizona, and the far West gen-erally; it affords two or three cuttings a year, yielding two orthree tons per acre at each cutting, and lasts without replantingfor some years; it is not well adapted to transportation owing tobrittleness.
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Figure 120. Alfalfa. FORAGE 369 Buffalo Grass.— (Figure 121.) This grass is extensively spreadover all the region known as the Plains; it is very low, the bulkof leaves seldom rising more than three or four inches above theground ; it grows in extensive tufts, or patches, and spreads largelyby means of off-shoots similar to those of the Bermuda grass :it formed the main supply of food for immense herds of buffalo,antelope, and other game which formerly existed in the West;next to gramma grass, it is perhaps the most valuable plant of theregion in which it thrives. Gramma Grass.— (Figure 122.) This is the commonest and bestgrass in the far West; it grows in small, roundish patches, thefoliage being in a dense cushion, like moss; the flowering stalksseldom rise over a foot in height, and bear near the top one or twospikes each about an inch long, standing out at right angles; whenmuch grazed these spikes are eaten off and only the mats of leavesare observable; it is highly nutritiou

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