| Show UT ANO NEUR HOLD BIG ME LT ING problems problem of maintaining plant life on range ra n e requires scientific polut solution io n forest supervisor C A and members of his staff in richfield and salina returned from a weeks artay at the great basin experiment peri ment station ten milea east ea st of ephraim where forest officers assembled for demonstration and discussion c us ion of technical problems in range management under the direction of ernest winkler chief of grazing for the intermountain director C L forsling of the great basin barin ba rin experiment station shoved chov cd results of years of scientific ranga ran plants under different methods of grazing grozing for instance rv tance more forab is made available to stock in the long run if 10 to 15 per cent of the plants are left un utilized at the end of the season cason sea son wheat grass properly managed ef fertilely kills out sage cage brush re vegetation ege tation of depleted areis areas can be accomplished by bv continuing the grazing under proper management district forester R 11 II rutledge addressed the official officials S S stressing tr desm rig the need for more technical knoal knowledge edge since the foiest sen aenice ice was becoming more and more an organization whose problems require scientific solution the forest officers mut moat acquire sufficient technical knowledge either through schooling cho oling or elf education to enable them to deal with their problems in a scientific manner mr rutlege also urged each supe mAor to watch the new nev man in the organization and not require lunt him to have too much reverence for his methods of doing things before promoting them this flus was ea estial to keep the forest service and to simulate individual thinking and angin originality aliby sir ir rutlege also alo the need for care application of the results of grazing experiments with particular reference to guarding against ero erosion ion damage to reproduction and against too low standard tan dard of utilization it had beon bein clearly demonstrated that forage left at the end of the grazing season is not only good insurance but enables plants to retain their vitality and in the long e run produces a greiter greater tonnage of forage for the stock than x nhen hen range is completely complete lv utilized dr J arthur harris hams of the university ver ity of minnesota who is cooperating with the forest service in range studies eq explained iiii hii in physiology of plants chich was showing that clio comical ch mical characteristics of plants oneie indicative of whit what type of forage could be expected on different tapes of oil ile he explained that the osmotic concentration was higher in mistletoe mi flenoe than in the host plant and that this factor varied in plants natural to different climatic and soil conditions condition he showed shoved that wheat grass and sage brush hid had the same osmotic concentration but that the wheat griss on account of hiving having a more superficial loot system was able to absorb the moisture first and thus have hane the adian advantage tage in ill competition with avith the sage age brush which had bad a deeper root sn tem dr clawson of the bureau of animal industry discussed his work nork with th poisonous plants he explained how animals were being studied A post mortem wis held immediately immediate lv after the death of an animal and microscopic examination of the various tissues was studied in detail in order to determine the exact reaction resulting from the various poisons |
