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Show Forester Reports On Range Salting Methods Experiments attempting to prove the value of using sleds for distributing dis-tributing stock salt on ranges are showing considerable promise, according ac-cording to J. Whitney Floyd, extension ex-tension forester of Utah State Agricultural college. " J He reports that last year ths ! Forest Service got a CCC camp on the Bighorn national forest to build 25 salt sleds from dead lodgepole pine as an experiment. The sleds were baout 18x30 inches in size. Six-inch pole were used for runners and 4-inch poles for " cross-supports. A 4 or 5-inch railing rail-ing around the top kept the salt on the sled. The sleds were moved several yards each time the supply of salt was renewed, in order to lessen the number and size of the "stomp grounds" that result from leaving the salt in one place. These sleds were in use during the summer months and in that time several facts were noted. One was that national forest range land was greatly improved, and a second was that there was a substantial sub-stantial saving in salt because it didn't dissolve. Also, the ground was not trampled wherever the salt happened to be placed, nor were any "salt .holes" formed by the pawing of stock. 1 Professor Floyd says that while I this practice has not become com- 1 mon it has good possibilities and I is worthy of stockmen's consider- ation in preparing to "salt" their ' summer ranges. j |