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Show Stock Growers Elect Officers t The Cache Valley Stock growers grow-ers association elected officers, adopted a new constitution and changed the name of the organization organi-zation at the annual meeting, N. J. Crookston, secretary-treasurer, reported today. T. Ray Theurer of Providence, was elected president; with Dr. O. Wennergren of Logan, vice president; Oliver G. Johnson, Serge Bodrero of Logan, and Arnold Nielsen of Hyrum, members mem-bers of the board of directors. The group approved a new constitution con-stitution drawn up by a committee commit-tee headed by Lloyd Theurer of Frovidence, and voted to change the name of the association to the Logan Canyon Cattle Association. They also approved an assessment assess-ment of $1.00 per head for all permitted stock grazing on for. est lands.' O. A. Harrison, assistant superintendent, super-intendent, and Range,r A. P. Christiansen of the Cache National Nation-al forest, presented a range management man-agement plan designed to stock the range within its carrying capacity ca-pacity by the end of 1945. Some adjustment in numbers of stock to graze on forest land will ' be necessary they pointed out, while the Forest Service is planning plan-ning a program of municipal wa-tershed wa-tershed protection, . fencing, watering water-ing improvements, and reseeding. Dr. L. A. S'toddart, head of the range management department at Utah State Agricultural college, reported on weight gain studies conducted on two experimental pastures just below Tony Grove in Logan canyon. I He pointed out that the range stock show an average gain of one and onerhalf pounds per day from the time they go on the range July 1 until they come off about October 15, but the heavy gain comes during the early summer months. During the first two months, the average gain was ' two pounds per day; in Septem ber it dropped to one and one-fourth one-fourth pounds, and in October was only three-fourths of a pound. The stock used in the experiments ex-periments were weighed monthly. Dr. I. F. Edwards, of the USAC department of animal husbandry, described breeding studies that will begin this year on the college col-lege pastures. |