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Show Range Problems To Be Discussed The fourth biennial field days to which wool growers, cattle men and others interested in range problems are invited, will be held at the Great Basin Experiment Station of the Forest For-est Service near Ephraim, Utah, on August 16 and 17, according to an announcement an-nouncement by C. L. Forsling. director direct-or of the research work of the Forest Service in the Intermountain region. The Extension Division of the Utah Agricultural college, of which Prof. Peterson is director, will cooperate with the Forest Service in this meeting. meet-ing. The range research, it is pointed out, is the foundation of the range livestock industry in the West, and better forage production is one of the important problems with which the industry has to deal. The object of the two-day meeting at the Great Basin Station is to afford those interested in-terested in range livestock production and range problems an ripportunity to see, the results of experimental work in range management to improve im-prove the native1 forage crop, in artificial arti-ficial range reseeding. and in erosion and streamflow, being conducted at the Experiment Station. The Great Basin Experiment Station was established estab-lished in 1912 for the purpose of giving giv-ing range users the aid or science in developing more efficient methods in the care and use of the range. |