Show elk grounds the hardware ranch in blacksmith fork canyon an experimental mental area for rame game feeding operated by the utah fish and ga game me department is proving its w worth orth in keeping elk out of the farmers orchards director ross koss leonard stated today following a days visit to the state property director leonard said there were about B 0 O head bead of elk only about it 11 of which were big bulls on the ranch during his tour he said that almost every cow had a nine month calf with her we made the Hard hardware warel ranch acres into a fee feeding place tor for elk in an ef effort fort to attract the big game herds from the able foothills in the cache valley region legion we have carried out a decd ing program there this winter and to date have in managed to keep elk pretty well on state property eliminating limina ting much of the trouble with the private land interests he said |