Show STOCK RANGES I BECOMING DRY 1 Few ew Good Feeding Areas In Idaho Nevada and Parts of Utah Unless unlooked for rains occur there will be no valuable ranges In Idaho Id ho Nevada and parts of Utah this tall according according- toAs ant ant DistrIct Forester Ernest Win WIn WIn-kler in charge of grazing who re- re recently recently re recently returned from an trIp of o the Payette Fayette and other pa- pa na national forests I in n Utah And Idaho From the best information that Mr Winkler could obtain on his trIp the hay liay crop In Idaho ili not be more than 50 60 per cent of normal Howe However er he ho declares this short short- shortage age ago age will be partly offset by the large luge Quantity of ot hay from the 1923 crop that was S W held over duoto due duo to the heavy crop and the open C Inter Linter LAMB m IjA ra PROSPECTS Late lambs he reports are arc do- do doIng doIng do doing ing well to date It Is hoped that they will make n a fair weight eight b fall Call shipping time Early art are said to b be looking well but butwill Ill not be ba as heavy as usual Up to the present forest ranges have stood up upwell well and in general l the stock Is almost normal ci- ci although al although though though all low ranges have dried up now and ond high range rang e are fast tast becoming dry The only good greel gree feed left Is said to be ba in dens and moist canyons Cattle canyons Cattle men Inen are anticIpatIng that the price of hay this tall fall will be higher than the tho market markets will jus- jus justify jus and are in poor financial lal con con- condition con condition to survive an e winter Inter FIRE At no time In tho the history of the foreL forest service Bervice h has the tire fire haz baa hazard hazard ard been quite BO so acute acuto as it is at atthe atthe atthe the present time Mr Winkler d 1 addIng that fortunately not noL much puch trouble has baa been experienced experienced so 0 far tar from dry electric storms torms and lightning Although there ha hae have e been a numb number r of ot fires on the tha Boise Pay Pay- Payette Pay Pay-ette cite ette and Idaho national Co forests rests the service has been able to control the fire situation so 80 far It Is declared unfortunate how how- however ever thit In of ot the large amount of ot publicity given gien the tho mat mat- matter matter ter a bIg bip percentage of ot the tho tires fires so 80 feti fal have been man caused and tampers the as- as assistant as assistant forester said eald ha have liae c shoma shown sho a lack ot of consideration for the fOI foi- foi foiest cst toi-cst est cst fire hazard and a I large nurn- nurn num-bei num hei bel of fires tires to date base ha ha e been In this marner The condition of ot most of ot the timber limber lining forest roads is saId to be al almost most a ns no hazardous as a a dry pile and many fires base hae been caused bv by cl s carelessly thrown into tho th dr dry pine needles at the roadside |