Show I I Forest Notes N otes 1 I IThe The opening ot of the deer season j jon on n the Manti found hundreds of on every spot with in the forest orest on which deer have been Seen een Due to the dry weather fewer ewer bucks than usual were re- re ported The bucks killed will also alao average considerably smaller than last ast year I IDue Due to favorable weather practically practically all parts of the forest could be e reached by automobile Dozens of f cars travelled over the Sky Line Drive Wagon Road Ridge and oth- oth other other er r points where the elevation is around feet teet Z Zimmerman merman and Johnson of f the Biological Survey have haye been working on the Manti ManU Forest dur- dur during during ing ng the past week putting out porcupine bait stations rat t various various' points within the forest I Some results from baiting done dono last ast month have been reported It Its Itis Itis is s thou thought ht however that during the ho early spring when the vegetation vegetation tion ion is young and tender that porcupines porcupines por- por will take more of the silt salt and strychnine mixture than they will at this time of or th the year Forest Guard L. L E. E E Young of or Huntington plans on taking the forest orest ranger examination in Nevada Nevada Nevada Ne Ne- vada oi orr on October Supervisor Humphrey and W. W W. W Blakeslee went over the Ferron Canyon road on October tober 24 and 25 26 Mr Blakeslee Is ia a member of the engineering force In the District Foresters Forester's office at Ogden One of at the tho sheep allotments on District 3 a herd of 1718 head hend of or sheep was split this past season In Into Into into In- In to two bands When the lambs were weighed this fall after atter leaving the forest they were 8 pounds than the lambs from an adjoining herd Weather Veather lambs w were re contracted contract contract- ed edat at 11 per pound and owe lambs at 3 c per pound The difference dif dlf- dif dif- I forence ference in the weight of the lambs lamb lambat I at per pound amounts to per Der head hend and as there was percent per ver percent cent of lambs in the herds the dif difference difference dif dif- ference in the weight of ot the lambs lamb amounted to something like Uke 1650 1650 considerably more than enough t to tJ I pay the expenses of running both bands for the full tull summer season It costs from 7 to lOc per head per month to care car for fir the sheep on the tho summer range during the grazing season in the larger herds berds To care for the sheep in the two small herds for the summer season will cost not to exceed double that 1 amount This will u leave VA a a II not net j profit proUt of at least per lamb Iamb In inI I addition to taking better caro taro of or orthe the sheep and yet yot there are many who protest Vr-otest strongly against the smaller herds |