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Show Dixie Forest Grazing Fees Take Drop for 1953 Season Grazing fees on the Dixie National Na-tional Forest will be lower for the 1953 grazing season reports Leland Heywood, assistant supervisor sup-ervisor of the Dixie National Forest. For-est. Statements now being sent out to livestock operators requesting payment of grazing fees for the 1953 season for the 50,000 sheep and 21,000 cattle grazing on the Dixie forest will reflect the lower market prices received for livestock live-stock during the past year. Grazing fees which are tied to a 1931 base index of livestock prices will be 370 per cent for cattle and 2(52 per cent for sheep as compared to 410 per cent and 310 per cent respectively for the 1952 season. This means that monthly grazing rates for cattle will be 59 cents per head per month on the Dixie division instead in-stead of 70 cent paid last year whereas sheep permits will be 12!i! cents per head per month instead of last year's 10 'i cents per head. There are (J5G persons holding grazinf, permits on this national forest Mr. Heywood states. Fees are paid in advance of the time the livestock enter the forest. |