Winterfat, as the name implies, is chiefly valuable on winter ranges, where it often furnishes an abundance of palatable and nutritious forage highly fattening to sheep and cattle.
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Winterfat
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Navajo
1 entries- gahtsohdą́ą́ʼ noun (Krascheninnikovia)
Russian
1 entries- крашениннико́вия noun (Krascheninnikovia)
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Winterfat was found growing luxuriantly on soil where the salt content of the fourth foot reached 1 percent.
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Storage in sealed containers either at subzero temperatures (-4° to -10° F.) or under refrigeration (34° to 42° F.) is recommended for maximum retention of viability of winterfat seeds.
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Long ago, J.G. Smith, in his publication on fodder and forage plants for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, thought that livestock fed on winterfat were "remarkably free from disease becaus of the tonic properties of the plant." Winterfat is a good source of protein and vitamin A.
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