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Show Grazing Increases On Manti Forest During the season of 1930, 139,932 sheep and 16,244 cattle and horses were grazed on the Manti forest. Of the sheep, 42,207 were permitted for lambing. The total number of grazing graz-ing permittees for 1930 for cattle and horses was 929, and for sheep, 744, making a total of 1,673. In 1925 133,408 sheep and 19,532 cattle were permitted while the number of sheep permitted for lambing was 46,55(7. The total number of cattle permittees permit-tees was .1279, and sheep permittees, 693, making a total of 1,972 permittees permit-tees for 1925, as compared with 1,673 for 1930. The increase in sheep is due entirely to exchanges from cattle cat-tle to sheep, while the reduction in number of permittees is due to consolidations con-solidations through purchases of permitted per-mitted stock. In the five-year period, 1925 to 1929, 921 sales of permitted stock were acted (upon. The reductions by reason of these sales totaled 363 cattle cat-tle and horses, and 1,335 sheep. During Dur-ing the grazing season of 1930, 83 sales of cattle and horses, and 70 sales of sheep were acted upon by the Supervisor's Office. The total reductions reduc-tions by reason of these sales amounted am-ounted to 22 head of cattle and 121 sheep. During the period 1925 to 1930 there were 21 forfeitures through cancellations, because of fake trans-! fers, non-ownership of stock, etc., and voluntary abandonments. The total to-tal surplus accrued through these forfeitures amounted to 74 head of cattle. Because of the ten per cent i reduction now applied in grazing transfers both above and below the protective limit, it is hoped that total numbers can be reduced to the actual carrying capacity of the ranges. . It is estimated that about 75 per cent j of the forest is properly stocked, and j that 25 per cent of the forest is over-stoc'-'!." Reductions through ! transfers, feitures, etc., should j bring about substantial reductions if sales are as numerous as heretofore. Had a ten per cent reduction been applied on all transfers, permit numbers num-bers would likely have been reduced to the carrying capacity of the forest for-est by 1934, the end of the present ten-year permits. The assembling of accrued surpluses from reductions transfers unfortunately cannot always al-ways be applied to the particular I areas where adjustments are needed, i In 1927 the woolgrowers, through an i assessment, reduced the sheep inj Twelve Mile Canyon by 700 head. This is in addition to the reduction:) in sheep shown above. j |