| Show SAVING AND AM COMFORT an explanation of why tile tiie federal government covern ment is expending funds in the ot of livestock diseases in the eradication of poison poisonous poisonous ou plants from national fat lonai forest ranges and in the i of predatory animals throughout the western states is iven in sorie some statistics recently com ailed riled by the ogden office of the forest service during buring the fiscal ye ear I 1 ar which ended alle 30 1918 cattle and horses worth COO and sheep worth COO were lost through predatory animals disease poisonous plants and other miscellaneous causes within the national forest of the intermountain ter er district the fact that his loss amounting to 0 o three quart rs of a million dollars in a single ear occurred upon grazing lands which are admittedly superior to hose comprising the open public anges gives some conception ot of the hazards attending the production of livestock in the west predatory animals took the hearl st toll from the range flocks and herds erds killing 0 73 cattle and horses v orth and sheep v orth the next most ale ae truc tive agency was the poisonous ilant which killed 2139 cattle and borses worth and sheep beep worth disease ac bunted for a loss of cattle and morses worth and heep worth miscellaneous auses including lightining ligi lining hoods floods logs etc account for the remaining 1407 1 cattle and horses worth 70 50 and sheep worth 13 3 74 lightning was particularly de truc tive causing heavy losses due to he congestion of stock at points 3 truck by lightning |
