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Show National Forest Grazing Fees Payable on Installment Plau As a measure of relief to live stock owners who have suffered suffer-ed from the widespread depression de-pression in the cattle and sheep industry, the Secretary of Agriculture, Ag-riculture, on the recommendation recommenda-tion of the Forest Service, has waived the requirement that grazing fees on stock using i National Forest ranges be paid 30 days in advance of the beginning be-ginning of the grazing period. Under the new regulation stockmen this year will be permitted per-mitted to pay the amount of fees due in two installments, first payment to be made on or before the date the stock enters en-ters the National Forest, and final payment on or before December Dec-ember 1, 1922, without interest on the deffered amount. Grazing permits will be issued issu-ed at the time of first payment, but each permit will contain a stimulation that failure to make final settlement by December Dec-ember 1 will be cause for the revocation of grazing preference, prefer-ence, together with the institution insti-tution of legal action for the collection of the value of the forage consumed. In 1921 over 38,000 live-stock owners grazed 2,129,500 cattle and horses, and 7,445,600 sheep and goats largely in the National Na-tional Forests of the Western States. |