Show i I SERVICE TElLS HO HOW I RANGE MAY BE BEI I PRESERVED Bulletin Issued From Forest Headquarters of District District District Dis Dis- Dis- Dis at Ogden Tho The forest service service- of or th the tho United States department of ot agriculture has I issued a bulletin on Natural tation on Forest Ranges showing i I how forage may be preserved and the rho ho livestock S Industry stabilized The bulletin f ju jut just t issued from tram district headden headquarters head- head Quarters ot of th the tho forest service at atto atu Ogden Ogden Og- Og I den reads In order to preserve the tho forage and I II u I stabilize the livestock industry to the I greatest extent possible the range I I forage cannot be bo grazed grazel with safety year after year unless the 7 cropping Is so gO adjusted as to permit tho vegetation tion I to get an occasional rest during I which the growing r W s period Forage plants are aro grazed year after year ear re reI regardless re- re I of ot season of at growth soon die from action starvation or produce only a small amount of weak growing ci I age The most common causes of ot forage I destruction are 1 t too heavy grazing I 2 pasturing stock too early In the tho season and 3 grazing too frequently during the growing season I ISTOCK STOCK DISTRIBUTION j i In the improvement of ot ranges ran one of the important problems problem j lis Is to distribute the stock so that each i portion of ot the range will bear Its share I of ot early cropping and in turn will be beI I protected until the main forage plants 1 have ripened their seeds To I push this a a. system of or grazing known I as deferred and rotation grazing has haa hasI I been developed the results of which I are published In department of agri I culture bulletin No 34 34 1913 I This investigation showed clearly among other things that the removal j i of ot the herbage year after year during luring 1 I the early part of ot the growing season weakens the plants delays resumption of ot growth advances the time of maturity maturity ma ma- hn and nd decreases the seed production production tion and the fertility of ot the seed crop It Is also clearly brought out that grazing after seed In no way interferes with the production of ot forage forage for for- ag age and a fertile ferUle seed crop The study showed that deferred grazing can be applied practically wherever ample water facilities for stock exist or may be developed METHOD OF PROCEDURE In applying the deferred deterred and rotation rotation rota rota- tion system of ot grazing the tho most most seriOUsly seriously seriously seri seri- depleted portion of ot the range Is IsI I selected first and Is not grazed until I after seed maturity While this area I is being the remainder will I be grazed during the early part of oC the season i. i e. e before seed maturity I After the area upon which grazing has I been deferred is a second area Is selected The first reserved area Is then grazed moderately before seed maturity so as to Injure th the young seedling plants as little as pos pos- sible W 4 a aBy By the adoption of or this method there is no necessity of ot reducing the number of ot stock grazed while the tho range is being After the entire allotment has been late or deferred grazing is alternated first on one area and then on another in order to give the vegetation a breathing spell as it were were were-a a chance to recuperate and produce a large amount of fertile seed from which new plants may come |