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Show Ecologists Report Results Of Tcoete Beef Feeding Project ranches until taken to Eov experiment stations about i?" of April and afterward-! L e eN ferred to the U. S nat? t;af;-ests t;af;-ests to complete the se '"al Daily gains for cattle?' months of age and for Cak ing the past four seawn du'-1944, du'-1944, 183 lbs. for the older" ere: .1.60 lbs. for calves; ig o"'"1, and 2.40 lbs; 1946, 1.87 lb, t lbi lbs.; 1948, 2.59 lbs. and 201 Figures Reliable "Since these figures are baM a large number of animals ,7 are considered reliable" ing to a report by Dr s? "Approximately 200 cattle weighed individually in iqad e,! 400 in each of 1945 and lqV 0111 500 in 1947. They, therefore?4 resent reliable averages" More than 400,000 acres nf yately replanted land is in0t p"-tion p"-tion in Utah, as owned bv f ers and stockmen, according t , S' Stewart. About 250,000 1. such private land has been n ed in Idaho, he added, where?' r work got under way later s Crested wheatgrass is the fa orite grass utilized. S. L. Tribune June u Among the Interested visitors, Benmore Field Day were cia ? ;Acord, Millard county assistant ncultural agent, Lafe Nielson t I Hinckley, Burnis Finlinson ! Oak City, and Leonard Voda'k D i ta, veterans' supervisor. Mr wi has visited Benmore on three these 4 annual field days The morning was spent' on lh I field, and after lunch a Vml was given at ehadquarters forV cussion of reseeding methods ajj soil and range conservation. Gratifying results in beef production produc-tion for the revegetation experiment experi-ment on 2S0O acres of abandoned dry farm at Benmore, Tooele county, coun-ty, are evident in the fourth year of the project, it was reported Monday Mon-day by Dr. George Stewart, ecolo-gist ecolo-gist of the Intermountain .Forest and Range Experiment station. The annual field trip to the project, pro-ject, located near Vernon and known as the Benmore grazing studies, revealed Friday that during dur-ing the grazing period from May 1 to July 1 gains have equalled those achieved in feed yards. Scope of Experiment Results are not being cited on the basis of a brief experiment and an inconclusive number of livestock, said Dr. Stewart, who said the grazing period extended 60 or 70 days during each of the summer grazing periods of the last four years and a total of several hundred cattle were used. Leaders of the field trip, which was host to approximately 96 persons per-sons were: Harry K. Woodward, district conservationalist for the U. S. Soil Conservation service; Dr. Lorin E. Harris, of the animal husbandry hus-bandry department of the Utah State Agricultural college, and Dr. Stewart. They represented the three cooperating units in charge of the big project. Attending and expressing en thusiasm over what they saw were stockmen from Weber, Morgan, Wasatch, Tooele, Utah and Millard counties, with a scattering representation repre-sentation from other places. The Benmore range is divided into fenced areas of 100 acres each and grazes privately owned cattle, which remain on the farms and1 |