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Show oo TESTS WITH PLANT LIFE DEMONSTRATED Much valuable Information of n practical nature has been obtained by forest officials of district No. 4 that attended the meeting at lh-Great lh-Great Basin experimental station n ar Ephralm, according to Ernest "Winkler, "Wink-ler, Inspector of gracing Of district No. 4 who returned last night Studies in erosion were shown the 1 officials by Dr. Arthur W Sampson who resigned recently to leoture at the University of California ;inl who Is finishing his work it the station Practical demonstrations ere to be made on three 20-acre plots that have been prepared to determine the effect ef-fect of grazing by sheep during the various stages of plant life This lias been determined l cropping the plants at various stages of their growth by mechanical means, but iDr. Sampson was desirous of getting an actual test under practical conditions. condi-tions. Information was also gained n.i to the species of plants that should bo used for the purposes of reseedlng I the depleted ranges Dr. Sampson has attained the best results with turf I grasses the scientific name of which is bromus lnerml. Tho information gathered will be used by the forest service officials in their field work In the dlff rent forests in district No. -I |