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ZACATON AS A PAPER-MAKING MATERIAL. of the grass for pulp
manufacture in sections where there are large acreages of luxuriant growth and where the cost of collecting the raw material in commercial quantities is not prohibitive.
Fig.
7.— Ad average
tuft
and two small
tufts of zacaton grass.
The writers have not as yet been able to obtain accurate figures as to the production of roots in pounds, but such figures as are available indicate a total production of from three to five million pounds per
6826°— Bull. 309—15
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