Show stockmen and farmers view crested wheat grass plots at benmore the value of replacing sage brush with crested wheat and oth er palatable drought resistant gras ses on utah spring and fall graz ing areas was the theme of the 19 47 annual benmore pasture tour held last tuesday at the benmore experiment station in tooele thoele county crops and pastures research specialists representing the follow ing government and state agencies have developed the benmore ex pen peri mental area in an effort to de termine the value of re seeding the sage brush grazing areas of the state to increase its grazing cap acety utah agricultural empen ment station utah agricultural ex tension service intermountain for est and kange range experiment station soil conservation service branch of operations soil conservation service branch of research bur eau of plant industry soils and agricultural engineering and the grazing service present to see and study the re suits of this experimental work were practically representatives from 10 different utah counties covering an area from cache coun ty on the north to millard county on the south local visitors attend ing included ennis hansen J J fredrickson and sons and others of vernon spooky brothers of clo ver willard sagers and other stockmen of st john howard clegg amos bevan E L morrell and county agent A E smith of tooele thoele I 1 speakers for the day included roy walker soil conservation ser vice branch of operations dr george stewart forest ecologist forestry service C W lauritzen Laun soil conservation service branch of research dr L A stoddart head range management depart ment utah agricultural empen ment station harry K woodard S C S branch of operations lor in E harris of the animal husban dry department of utah Agri agricula cult ural experiment station and clay cummings of wasatch county a stock grower after a short session and lunch at headquarters the visitors were taken into the pastures where the cattle were grazing here they were shown good and poor stands of crested wheat grass and reasons for the difference given stockmen were told by rotating pastures much better use was had and the grass plants given better krotec tion complete records are kept of each animal that grazes on the project and it has been shown that for some periods of time cattle pastured in the project pastures have shown gains almost equal to those shown in regulated feed yards much information was given on methods of seeding and farmers were cautioned to keep cattle from over grazing the new grasses which will insure full growth and healthier plants each year |