Bulletin of the National Research Council Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...species have been either failure or of little promise. In 1913 similar experiments were started at the Fort Valley Experiment Station with thirteen native grasses. Of these, four show promising results, six have produced a thin stand, and three have been failures. At the Great Basin Experiment Station the investigation will be continued with additional species, care being taken to select those which show possibilities in the way of extension of range. Seed of the species now in the nursery will be used for seeding under range conditions outside of the nursery. Also seed of Mertensia, collected on the Uinta Forest in 1917, will be used for experimental seeding on range near the Experiment Station. Further, an experiment is planned for the Uinta Forest in seeding depleted areas with seed of valuable native forage plants collected on nearby range to test the feasibility of hastening the revegetation on denuded areas. At the Fort Valley Station observations will be continued until all species have produced seed. A report will then be written and the project will be closed or extended to range reseeding if the results warrant. Date of completion, indefinite at the Great Basin Experiment Station, probably 1919 at the Fort Valley Station. Assigned to A. W. Sampson and G. A. Pearson. 223. Artificial reseeding of range in Southwest. At the Jornada Range Reserve, two plots were seeded to slender grama and two to hairy grama in the spring of 1916. Two acres seeded to alfilaria in November, 1916. Additional seedings of alfilaria made in the winter of 1916 and 1917. All these seedings show negative results. During the spring of 1917 Russian thistle was seeded on part of the desert range. Thus far the results appear to be negative. The drought of...