Show I Crested Wheat ea Grass Proves roves Good teed Feed Floyd C. C Noel forest ranger on tile tue Dixie National Forest reports results of a grazing study conducted at Pine Valley Vaney during during- the past summer to determine gains g made by cattle on crested wheat wheatgrass grass and the open open mountain mountain mountain moun moun- tain range Yearling and year two-year old Hereford heifers owned by Clawson Clawson Clawson Claw- Claw son Burgess Burg of or Pine fine Valley were used in the test according according- to toRanger toRanger Ranger er Noel On June 1 16 G seven heifers were placed in an 1 40 acre crested wheatgrass wheatgrass wheatgrass wheat- wheat grass pasture and were kept there until October 17 During the summer months they were weighed at near monthly intervals intervals inter Inter- vals to determine period of best gain At the same time there were placed in the pasture seven more heifers were turned out on the adjacent grazing grazing- allotment and were not weighed hed again ain until until until un un- un- un til late fall During During- the period of days from June 16 to October 17 the tho heifers on crested crested crested crest crest- ed wheatgrass rass range rang made an r average e gain of of 17 pounds per day The best gain was made in inJune inJune June Juno with an average e of pounds per day In the days tho other seven heifers were on the tho open range the they made mado an average e daily gain of only 97 pounds per head At the start stan of the study average weight of or heifers helfer placed in the pasture was pounds and on the outside pounds At the conclusion the tho relative weights were an and G 91 pounds Total season long gains therefore averaged ed pounds per head on crested wheat wheatgrass grass and pounds on the mountain range rang or a dif dlf- difference ference of or 88 pounds The 1917 1947 study 1947 study was tho the sixth year of or the tho experiment and confirms confirms confirms con con- firms the results of the previous five years of tests with steers and heifers beUers It shows several in interesting interesting In- In things s first the high palatability of crested wheatgrass wheatgrass wheatgrass wheat- wheat grass second the benefit of ample amplo feed and third the periods periods perIods peri perI- of most rapid gains in weight and levelling off orr of gain ain toward the end of oC the season A comparison of the figures fIg taken for the entire six years of the study shows that the cattle cattle cattle cat cat- tle In tho the crested wh wheatgrass rass pasture made an average o gain ain of or 21 pounds per head per day as against a gain of 11 Id pounds per head per day made mad by cattle on the tho open range This represents an average gain ain of pounds per head for a four months grazing grazing grazing graz graz- ing ing- season for the cattle in the crested wheatgrass pasture as compared to pounds for cattle cat- cat tle on open range rang or a difference differ differ- ence enco of pounds |