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Show Cattlemen Elect Hew Officers; Hear Range Talks New officers of the Springville Livestock Association were elected elect-ed at a recent meeting of committees com-mittees who hold grazing permits on the Hobble Creek allotment, in the Uinta National Forest. Ed Averett will be the new president; presi-dent; V. C. Phillips, vice president; Ruel E. Crandall, secretary; and Lewis Diamond and C. A. Spafford, board members. The Forest Service was represented repre-sented by J. L. Jacobs, forest supervisor; sup-ervisor; A. L. Taylor, assistant supervisor from Provo . Merrill Nielson) forest ranger; and L. E. Torton, assistant ranger from Spanish Fork. Advisory board members reported report-ed on handling cattle on the range and range conditions and improvements. improve-ments. Ranger Nielson gave some statistics statis-tics showing that plant development develop-ment is less advanced than it was 18 to 20 years ago. At that time, about 1920-26, cattle were put on the range early in April, while the plant development records kept in recent years show that the range should not be grazed before June 1 in the right fork of Hobble Creek. He also reported on the range analysis an-alysis survey recently completed which showed 1.89 usable acres per cow per month. It takes two acres of good range to support a cow for one month. Ranger Nielson spoke of the necessity of working on the grazing graz-ing problems on the ground, and urged permittees and advisory board members to cooperate with forest officers in trying to solve the problems. |