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Show SAVING THE RANliE FROM OVER-GRAZING BY ALLOWING BREATHING SPELL FOR PLANTS. in Its publicity campaign, the Ogden , ;tffice of the forest service has sent Rt the following on the pre-senmg f the forage on the range: Natural Re-vegetation. In order to preserve the forage and tfibil'ze the livestock industry to the pwtest extent possible, the range forage cannot be grazed with af tl Ttar after ;r unless the cropping b eo adjusted as topermii the ve Utlon (o get au occasional real during ft growing period. Forage plants h!ch are grazed year alter year re-girdles? re-girdles? of season of growth soon die from actual starvation or produce only Ismail anioun; uf weak growing for-ige. for-ige. The most common causes of forage ftetruction are (1) too heavy graz.ng; 12) pasturing stock too earh In the Mason, and (3) fcrazins too'frequently Wring the growing season. lc the improvement of worn-out jnpes one of the important problems to distribute the'slod; so that each' Pwtion of the range will bear its share 1 f parly cropping and, In turn, will Protected until the main forage Mm? ha r- nwnri.! I'mi-ir mm i).- To eompliyh this a s stein ol gr.i-mg Jfiown a? "deferred and rotation graz-has graz-has been de eloped, the results I 'which are published m department "Wcuhuru bulletin No. 34, 1913. I ihij, investigation showed clearly, Jcdk other things, thai the removal Jae herbage year after yeai during Prly part of the growing si son etken the plants, delaj - n sumption m Fw'h. advances the time of ma-1 nty. and decreases the seed nroduc pand the fertilitj of the seed crop. i also clearly brought out thai grnz B liter seed maturity in no way in ncrcj Witj, tru. I)rofjur.10n of f0r. :i fertile 8feed C1'P The tudy tonu lhal deferred grazing can be Jd practically wherever ample Kb I 'putties for stock exist or mav 65 developed. applying the deferred and rota-Euilv rota-Euilv ie,1 0( razinC the most se- K T' "m- anU lsnot erazed until iik',- :d maturity While this area ) kfNe. iho reniair.der v ill - during iho f.ary part th " irj"," n" bf-'re seed maturity Af keen IT ,Uon whlf h &k has 1 Wtt 2, le6 i8 r"8eedSo, a second treah tvek'C,Pd T1,P lirfit reserved i L, "d moderately before- ton,S as to injure the j , rl seedling plants as little a:s pos- I 'Btotk or leduc'ng the number 1 h tpL lSeJ wnilc ,h? r:jnce is be Co It A,rrr lhp fc and tl " al,p"tod nrSt on one h n on another n order to spell", as it were a chance to recu-perate recu-perate and produce a large amount of j ten lie seed from which new plants; may come. oo |