Show seeding offers increased creased grazing floyd 0 noel local bocal forest ranger on oil the dixie national foresti forest reports results ot of a grazing study conducted at pine valley the past elicit years yeara to determine gains made by cattle on crested crost erti wheat grass and th the e open mountain range the overall over all average gain for the years odthe of the study is la pounds per headier head per day tor for the cattle on oil crested wheatgrass wheat grass pasture as aa against a 9 gain of 11 pounds per day matte made py cattle pit on the open range ranged for or a grazing season of days this would amount to a gain of pounds for the pasture cattle and pounds per lead head tor for the open range cattle or a difference of lOpo pounds unda per head avith a market price of 20 cents per pound the pasture cattle wo would uld br bring li ngan an avera average gere re WIT turn of per head gained while on pasture and the open range cattle would bring an average return of 2640 per head the difference of 2 2080 6 80 per head indicates the gross profit gained by grazing on tile the crested wheatgrass wheat grass pasture As aming aliat al the proper carrying capacity of the Is ii 11 acres per cow month and the open range la Is 10 acres per cow month the tho gross profit per seeded acre would be 7 86 compared to r 56 6 ce bonts tits per acre on an tho the open it fanget results of this study show that western sagebrush I 1 janda lands can be re seeded t to 0 grass an anci produce about 10 tim times esthe the amount of beet per acre that they produced before re seeding |