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Show A Valuable Forage Plant. A plant of great value to the West, and particularly on alkali lands, is the Australian salt bush. On the poorest and most arid and stubborn soil' and tnat strongly impregnated with alkali this plant makes a vigorous and excellent ex-cellent forage growth. The California Experiment Station has made extended extend-ed investigations of salt bushes for many years and is now cooperating wiuu one umted States Department of Agriculture to introduce the plant thruout, the West without cost to the farmers. The best species-artipkx semibaccata, imported from Australia -thrives under a great variety of conditions, con-ditions, from extreme aridity to irrigation, ir-rigation, as shown by the California experiments, and seems to combine. a remarkable number of virtues, including includ-ing great frost resistance, late growth, d outh resistance, succulence, palata bihty and heavy yield, sand-bindino. quali tes and the habit of spreading-freely. spreading-freely. Farmers desiring to know more of this plant or obtain seed wot Id do well to write to the Secrcfu v of Agriculture at Washington. V ? |