Show the requirement that all cattle horses and sheep grazing under permit on the national forests be given salt at frequent intervals Is a regulation which has been aven found to go a long way in protecting the range and conserving the forage crop experience has shown that tile the want of salt makes stock restless if cattle and horses are arc not su supplied as they need it they roani roam and wonder haunting old salzig grounds used in previous seasons trampling the forage plants instead 0 of eating them pawing the ground and in other ways injuring the range but it if their cravings clavings cravi aro supplied tile they scatter peacefully over the pasture grounds and feed at their lef leisure ture salt is so necessary i lec essary to the easy and profitable handling of sheep on the range that n 0 would think of getting along without it if f sheep do not receive their usual supply it is only with great difficulty that they can call be held in bonds or kept in camp at ni night 7 lit so tar far as sheep are concerned no regulation by law is really necessary because the theoan owners for their own convenience will salt their flocks but cattle are not herded and the ilic owners might neglect to salt them if tho the regulations were not st richly enforced stock on d different ferent if ranges require varying quantities of salt sheep need less on dry ran rane e than on green an average quantity for 1000 head of sheep would be from 1000 to 15 00 pounds each year for a like number of cattle from to 00 a year is is required horses need less than cattle old hunters in the the days of the plon pion aers linew knew that deer and buffalo traveled long distances to lick salt in salino springs the blue licks on licking river in kentucky and a simi lar mineral spring on elk river in west virginia were famous for the herds of deer buff buffalo falo and e elk ik which frequented them the adjacent ground was so deeply tramped that the marks were to tie be seen many years after the bac pacas s ceased to lie be visited by these animals |