| Show grazing expert makes an appeal for protection of our vast public domain doma i n director Direct ct C L rorsi forsling lug ot at the cheat ban basin experiment station at in bin his talk at the U D I 1 C on I 1 our fall and U V inter range lems gave ome some very valuable ka ot of interest to the people ot of the uintah basin lie eald said that figures determined from the 1924 dm firm census in duchesne uintah and daggett counties gho sho that the gross return returns from ool aa 1 lamba lambs 1716 beef cattle and calve calves a total ot of ta 2 equal 0 to o 64 6 per cent of at total iacoma from agri culture in theme counties farm crops including bay dairy products product 4 00 poultry total 1 a grand total exclusive 11 ot of hogg hogs horses I 1 mules and a tew few other minor crops 5 I 1 so that approximately 66 per cent of at the returns cretu na fram agriculture are from range livestock present I 1 figures are probably biffi rent but the percentages percenta pea probably have not changed from what principally Is ahls lile income derived derly edT the figures show that approximately 95 tom tons ot of hay bay are produced in the basin it if very bit 0 of this were fed to the albeet beef cattle dairy cattle sheep and horses it feed them for or ap proximately only days in other words livestock have feed tor for cot riot more than 30 per cent of the t roe me and the other days d 1 1 y 3 or 70 per cent or more of 0 t the 1 1 time feed must come conie from grazing in view ot of the act fact that farm arm horse horses and dairy cattle are fed more than range stock the range stock depend upon grazing tor for 80 per cent of their aped X vere ere it not for or the grazing land chere mould be no ll live tock industry nevertheless it Is bate safe to say that leea less attention Is given to the and mallit nance of pasture land and to the moat economical use of 0 pasture than any other phase of agriculture next let us consider the problem from the land area standpoint tand point in th tha basin including daggett county there are about five and one quarter million acrea acres ot of land of this only acre acres or 2 per cent are in crops the rest la is principally grazing with some waste and considerable sid erable timber undoubtedly several hundred thousand acres more will be irrigated some day but still the bulk 0 of the area probably more than go 90 per cent kill always be chiefly valuable for grazing together th er with that portion which la ia valuable for watershed water shed resources and timber production of the total area 1195 aart acres a or 22 per cent is national forest about 2 acres or 6 per cent is indian perk reservation acres or 9 per cent ig Is la in farms crazing Is more or less regulated upon these area areas or about 37 per cent of at the dasin basin counties of the remainder 1 I 80 acres or 34 per cent of the tola total Is open public domain dom aln there Is also a remainder al 0 about II 11 1 boo acres or 24 per cent made up of state lands private hold old ings and federal mineral and other reserve upon which waring grazing Is ot at c strolled nt rolled in other word words ethere la Is less than halt of the grazing lands under gome some a of I 1 con arol while there Is no control on over halt half of lt 1 the game general gertral situation holds Thea for tb the state of utah as a hole last years year a crop how hat that 31 per cent of the income from agriculture was from wool lambs and beet beef cattle in addition the hay crop that amounted to 21 pe cent of farm income was largely target marketed thru livestock so that for even the state as a whole almost one half the income was from rom range approximately go 80 pr per cent of the teed feed used by rane ranze cattle and sheep comes from grazing mrs george E adams miss lorna a S and wins legrande loung g entertained mrs young a grandchildren at a swimming party tuesday afternoon at the Sid dakay grove the afternoon was most pleasantly enjoyed by all W J mcnaughton and family have returned to their home in salt bait lake city alter otter spending a two weeks vacation with sith mr mcnaugh tons mother mrs L 1 mcnaughton l N ernal thi this Is the first time mr MiA aughton bu visited vernal for twenty year years |
