Show 1 Miles Of Fenc Built Imagine a fence miles long stretching from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City to San Francisco and then back east again gain as far I Kansas City It would take a cowboy traveling at the rate of 30 miles milesa Oi OJ da day a little more than five and one-half one months to ride the full length of this fence If all of the range fence built by the Soil Conservation S service in Now New M 1 xico Colorado Utah and Arizona were joined end to end they would stretch that A few years yrol'S ago in camps scattered scatter scatter- ed throughout the Southwest hund huncl reds rods of enrollees were build- build fences Today they are only a a memory memory mem mem- or ory but the benefit of its labor remains on the land Fences are essential in a n range conservation program range exports ex- ex ports p of the soil conservation ex- ex vice ice A fence divides a ranch into pastures so that livestock live stock can be shifted from one place to Lo another according to a t system of or ord d or rotational grazing With fencing the rancher can utilize forage in each pasture when the grasses and browse are arc most I I palatable and he can shift his livestock to another pasture before the range is too grazed |