Iron County Record | 1955-05-19 | Page 10 | Ag. Extension Report Reveals Range Dry, Mountain Forage Low

Rg. Extension Report Reveals Range Dry, Mountain Forage Low Temperature fluctuations and generally slow down of the season sea-son have contributed to a critical situation in Iron County, according accord-ing to a report issued this week by the Utah Extension Service of the U S A C, U. S. Department Depart-ment of Agriculture and the U. S. Department of Commerce. According to the report for Iron County the forage on the mountains moun-tains will not be ready until ' much later and range land is extremely dry with very little feed growing at the present time. These two facts have resulted In sheepmen seeking farm fields to maintain sheep until mountain range is ready. There is a short-agae short-agae of alfalfa hay and appar-l ently none is offered for sale In any part of the county, the report re-port continued. ; High winds and uncertain weather conditions have contributed con-tributed to the situation. Last week the temperature flucuation at the Cedar City Municipal Air-tort Air-tort varied from a hi eh of 80 do. gress to a low of 26. All is not sour, however, in the report. In many cases, the lamb and calf crops have been report-to report-to be better than usual. There have been some loss of early lanibs and calves because of cold weather, but losses in general have been moderate. Some infestation infes-tation of cutworms has appeared In the County but In general no control measures have been used. For the period May 10 to 1G precipitation In the county was .11 Inches. I