Show CATTLE ON FOREST the increased demand for meats and animal products byproducts by within the past few years has clearly demonstrated that the beet beat use of the range without injury to other forest resources la is essential wuhen the past few years improved methods of handling cattle sheep and geals haye have been demonstrated to the stockman on a num oer of our ranges one ol of the outstanding features on cattle ranges Is he be salting rian plan method has hai resulted in conspicuous improvement pro to the range and to the stockman cattle require a certain amount ot of salt aall to keep the system vigorous and healthy the exact amount depends e chiefly upon the class of forage grazed and the time of the season more salt being required while the forage Is green and succulent than when d dry ry the tact fact that salt Is highly relished by cattle and the latter will travel a considerable distance for it affords a m means eans of distribute distri distributing but ing them over the range in ili selecting salting places the aim should be to place the salt on well vegetated areas some distance from water and natural pas PS sways frails roads etc where they can graze without injuring the round ground cover in this way it is P possible os to procure uniform grazing over the entire range in order to promote proper distribution trib ution of the stock each salting place should be designated by number or name and the place posted in addition the amount ot of salt to be placed at each salting station with ith dates when it should be put out should be determined in advance the amount and time ot of putting out he e salt is determined on the basis of the grazing capacity af the area which each salting ground controls aber the forage is consumed around one salting ground salting ground salting is abandoned here for the season salt Is then placed on another point which should be on range where the oie forage Is later maturing to successfully carry out a detailed salting plan as outlined it is essential that the person responsible for the administration of the range ses ee to it that the salt is put out in he proper amounts and on the daam decided upon th the salting la Is usually donet done by the herder the herder also moves the cattle to new salt sail grounds prevents drifts from the area and looks after the welfare ot ol the stock generally salting plans have been successfully carried out on many forest ranges of the west but there stil remains much to lie be done along thie lire lice where the range was gradually becoming depleted it has in instances been possible to prevent reduction in the number of stoel permitted through proper salting due to uniform utilization over th entire allotment should encourage improvement pro of range conditions b adopting definite salting plans you favor the adoption of this plan mr air stockman if you could increase the grazing capacity of the range from 26 25 to 60 per cent this has actually been done on a few of our depleted forest ranges |