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Show FOREoT NOTES Observations at the Utah Experiment station show that asen sprouts from good stumps attain a miximum height growth during tue summer season of over one-half inch per day. UNine hundred coyote pelts were sub-j sub-j mitted to the Lincoln County (Wyoming) I Woolgrowers' association, at its recent meeting, for the bounty of $2.00 apiece, olfered by the association. Sand grass, white sage, button (or apple) sage, and slt sage, or shad ; scale, are the principal forage plants of j Nevada desert winter ranges. The past I winter has been very favorable for des- ert ranging, there having been adequate but not too much snow. In Idaho the growing practice for ten years is to feed the sheep hay, principally alfalfa, for 90 days. This costs upwards of half a dollar a head. The forest service has just completed an estimate of the timber of the Teton forest, adjoining the Yello .vstone p ,rk on the south, and finds hat it oh,.: ,ios sufficient spruce, fir, and pine timber suitable for wood pulp to supply a mill of 150-ton a day capacity. Power for ' such a miil can be supplied by Pine or Rainey creek, tributaries of the Snake river, and the Snake river will transport trans-port the bolts of wood from forest to mill. Sufficient ties were cut from the Wasatch forest from July to January to amount at 8 cents apiece stumpage to $2LU0U more than is required to administer ad-minister the entire forest for twelve ; months. Examination last summer of remote parts of the Salmon and Challis forests i is resulting in more complete utilization, j A stockman of Mountain Home has been j granted peimit for 10,000 sheep on the Salmon, and other stockmen will be shown over at present unused ranges as soon as snow conditions permit. I The Emmett-Payelte national forests woolgrowers' association at its recent annual meeting decided to use the jota-tion jota-tion or deferred system of grazing the coming season in handling their bands of sheep on the Payette forest ranges Tlrs m ans that the forage on a different differ-ent portion of each allotment -"ill be alio al-io a ed to mature and disseminate its s.edc-ach year before being grazed, thus assuring res-eding of the entire area at least once during everv three lo live years, i Delbert Petersen of Castledale 1 as been listed with 160 acres of land in the ' La Sal forest, upon which he will have ; first right to enter upon the land being j thrown open. |