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Show I (:!:ST NOTIvS On Angest loo lambs were taken out of the Wagon Road Ridge Herd; and on September 9, 1800 head or all the remaining lamb-, i i the herd weic remove 1 from ihe Forest. The reason for Ibis i'ien was purely for ;aiige protect 'on purpo;es since the feed was gelling short. Mr. Prnes liil from Sher;d:in, Wyonihuj wi'l a: live in Rphraim on Sipl. niber 2o lo lake up the duties of second c I ri; in I ho Supervisor's office Mr. Ilill-will take Mi-s Duena Chris-tensen's Chris-tensen's p'ace si ice -lie is resigning on September 10. Mr. C. K. Evans from the Ogden office will bp on the Manti September 23 for the purpose of looking over proposed real proiee's for 1927. Di-. i:t Fng'-ieer J. P. Martin will be here to I ok over some of our projects du:i:rT the (flirst days of Oel ober. Co i;der:ng Ihe extremely dry yeai the slieri- ranres on Districts No. 1; and 2 are In fairly good shape. On the remainder of Ihe Forest the Permitted Per-mitted herds will leave from September Sept-ember 13 to 25. Due to the dry season sea-son but little, if any, second crop for-:i for-:i ;e was grown. The cattle range., on the east side of the Forest are holding out fairly well and cattle are ir. good .condition. On pans ot the range .the springs are holding up fair ' ly well. At the Bear Creek Ranger Station the Hungarian brome grass plantation planta-tion produced seven sacks of seed which has-been distributed over all dist.rirts of the Forest. It is planned I to sow this seed on only the most severely denuded areas. On many of the rdieep allotments the herder have for some years .been collecting and sow-in,; seed from the native brome grass, sweet antse, and other palatable forage plants, on .the parts ef thetr allotments most in need ol reaeeding. Two yearn ago orfieer-of orfieer-of tile Cottonwood Creek Livestock Association sowed 200 lbs. of yp'io.r clover seed on Trail a id Eas Mountain. This clover is ju?t .blooming .bloom-ing now. It is a question as ti whether or not viable seed will be produced.- Owing to the extreme!; dry season the results Prom sowin? of this clover seed have not been a--satisfactory a.j had been hoped. W. C. Clog, General .Inspector in Ihe Forest Service for a number of seasons and for many years an employee em-ployee of the John H. .Seely and Sons Company, will leave for Russia with a shipment of Ramboullet sheep some time in the neair future. Mr. Clos hy reason of his wide experience with the breeding of livestock and the management of ranges, has been ol'feied a position with the Russian .Government. The best wishes of his friends in the Forest Service will "iccom.pany him. Much coal es being hauled from tht otrai.ght Canyoa coal -mines- over the Ephraim Ocangeville Road to Eph-aini. Eph-aini. Excen: for a short section in 3!raight Can on, where it is some-ohat some-ohat sandy, the road is reported in i.xci I .ent shape. - The Huni:n,otou Canyon Road vorkei;is plan on completing that road during the present month. The work has beei delayed by reason of 'he contractors taking time off to harve-tt their farm co?. Killing fro-.ts have occucTed on the mountain dnriig- th0 hast ten days s a result the maples, dogwood, aspen and many oilier shru'bs an! 'rees are becoming beautifully colored. color-ed. There is a po .'-ability, from '.l-'Ten t ipfTr'f-n.'- inn, ihat an e.ij-ly winter can be e:opecfd since the "'Ten leaven at already comnieucing 'o fall. A lew of the Oramreville cattle Derin!fl.ee have coi it.ra.it r ) ihe'" " en" '"r Creoher delivery. Accord:'.g lo ; lie coat'--.fi (hp- a.- i,.; reep: R R j 'fi.'t n I , n,wi. f and on" hal'' v'"'". o.x-y. .,, hejr,-.,.,, , s- I ind one half lor 3t.:er-). Only a few f the permit! -c; - old at. ihese price: j icce a nv.iiority of the -stockmen are "xpetti.ig h-'.gher pnices for the'r j :toc!;. 1 I, Some of the .sheep ponmitteos have ccrn'iv cr-ni. -acted their lambs at 12 " "nts pr V. Tho--e contractu, ' their 'ami's last spring received only 10 1 -civs. Sometimes it pays to hold off 1 ri t 7 1 they are ready for delivery, j other t'raes it is a. losin.g proposition; y ert.iinly it n always a g-uies with the i adds agai ist the growers. |