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Show I )j , flHe'at" Production i I '-" - National " Forests . I 'i' r-.' Irioreases BBBBB N,w BBI B ! (Secretary of 'Agriculture. Allots Range H jf : For Nearly Two Million Cattle B , lU and Nine, Million Sheep B ' f ', Washington, April 19. Receipts BBJ J. from grazing permits on the national BBl ) jjfi forcatfl for tlio season of 1915 wilt Hb i contribute to tlio public revenues np- B ' i proximately $1,200,000 or about ?200,- BBB I 000 mur0 tlinn last year, according to BBB , j; niu egtlmato made from tlio allow- j t anccs Just authorized by the secro- BBJ i) tary of agriculture The forests this BBK i' year "III furnlsli forage for 1,933,775 B I cattle and horses. 8,747,025 sheep and I BBl ' ft goals, nnd 0 1,010 sr.'lue, thc figures H JP Indicating a muterial lucrcaso of j meat production on the government BBBj lit regulated rangos. BjB iJj Tlio Increase of 92.C5G cattlo and BBB n homes over the allowances for 1914 BB ;, Is accompunlcd by an Increase of BBBj I 120,881 sheep and goats, showing BBB that In many parts of tho west sheep B K sj am giving way to cattlo. It Is thought BBB that tho recent high prlco of beef BBB , ,- has been, onc'ouraglng many farmers BBBj , and former sheepmen to go Into tho BBBJ cattlo buslnoss, though It w It 1 be the BBBJ first (Ime In tho last flvo years that BBBJ ' , the allowanco of sheep has not In BBBJ N crcasod over that of the previous sea- BBBJ eon. Thcro nro localities, however, BBBJ t whore tho demand for sheep rnngo Is J far In excess of tho supply. BBBJ Tho glazing charges aro slightly BBBJ . lilghor this year. In the wcBt rates BBBJ ' Iiavo been llxed at 4S to 90 cents per BSJ head por year for cattle and horses, BVJ and 12 to IS cents for sheep and BSJ i goats; In tho east tho rates aro from BBBJ ! S5 cents to J1.G0 for cattle, $1.10 to BBBJ $2.00 for horses and 25 to 40 cents BBBJ f for sheep and goats. I'lgs pay from BBB 29 to 43 cents In tho west and 50 to BBB , 90 cents In tho cast. BBB Tho grazing allowances Indicate BBB tho relatlvo Importance of tho stock BBBj I i business In the various parts of tho BBBj 'west In which tho national forests BBB are sltuatod. Tho forests in District BBBj , . No. 2, which embraces Colorado, Wy- P omlng, South Dakota, Nebraska, BBBJ Western Kansas, Northorn Michigan BBBJ nnd Northern .Minnesota, uro allowed BBBJ ' tho largest numbor of cattlo, 522,550 BBBJ ' head, and next to tho largest number H ' ' of sheep, 1.397.5Q0 head; District 4, K comprising Utah, southern Idaho, BBBJ western Wyoming, eastern nnd ccn- BBBJ trnl Nevada, nnd northorn Arizona, BBBJ tho second largest number of cattlo BBBJ 431,150, and tho largest number of PP J sheep, 3,335,8G0; District 1, comprls- BBBl , lug Montana, nortliwestcrn Washing- P . ton, northern Idaho, northwestern BBBJ I South Dakota, and southwestern J BBBJ North Dakota, 193,510 head of cattle, P and 1,304,500 heud of sheep; D'strlct j BBBJ j 3, comprising Arizona and Now Mexl-1 BBBJ I co, 418,900 cattle and 905,800 sheep; B District 6, embracing California and I BBBJ I southwestern Nevada. 212,280 cattlo, , T tnd 608,050 sheep; District ". comprising com-prising Washington, Oregon, ami .ilaska, 159,250, cattlo nnd 1,280,500 bIW, District 7, which Includes Arkansas, Ar-kansas, Florida, Oklahoma and tl$ states In Now England nnd tho Sou-thorn Sou-thorn Appaaohlan.roglon, where forest for-est reservations have been purchased purchas-ed by tho government, 40,135 cattli, nnd 14,850 sheep. ) |