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the chief forage problems of this section; and advice was asked as to 

 methods of restoring, renewing, and improving the ranges where tbey 

 had been overgrazed. About 300 repHes were received from stock and 

 range owners in the State of Texas, and some of the data furnished are 

 here tabulated : 



County. 



Aransas 



Archer 



Armstrong 



Atascosa 



Bexar 



Brazoria — 



Average 



■ Salt grass 



Prairie 



Wooded bottoms 



Brewster 



Brown 



Burnet 



Castro 



Callioun 



Callahan 



Camp 



Carson , 



Childress 



Clay (average) 



Coke 



Collin 



Collin 



Coleman 



Collingsworth 



Coh)rado 



Comal 



Comanche , 



Concho 



Cooko 



Crockett 



Crosby 



Dallas (average) 



Deaf Smith..: 



Denton 



Dewitt 



Dickens 



Donley 



Dnvai , 



Eastland 



Ector 



El Paso 



Erath 



Fisher 



Foard 



Gallagher 



Galveston 



Goliad 



Gray 



Gravson 



Hale 



Hall 



Hansford 



Hardeman 



Hartley 



Hemphill 



Ho])kin8 



Hood 



Howard 



Hutchinson 



Irion 



Jack 



Johnson 



Jones 



Num- 

 ber of 

 persons 

 report- 

 ing. 



4 



10 



1 



2 



1 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 4 

 3 

 1 

 4 

 1 

 5 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 1 

 2 



3 



10 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 1 

 3 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 5 

 4 



The present carrying capacity 

 of the ranges; number of 

 head per square mile. 



Cattle. 



80 

 40 

 35 

 53 

 66 



90 

 128 

 130 

 82 

 45 

 40 



45 

 213 

 GO 

 10 

 65 

 58 

 84 

 50 

 " 150 

 c250 

 70 

 64 

 75 

 60 

 60 

 50 

 80 

 25 

 40 

 77 

 32 

 83 

 97 

 45 

 52 

 64 

 68 

 25 

 16 

 62 

 47 

 51 

 40 

 200 

 70 

 50 

 210 

 32 

 52 

 40 

 45 

 64 

 34 

 83 



32 



52 



64 



200 



Horses. 



50 



40 

 50 



90 



Slieep. 



300 to 700 



Estimated percentage of increase 

 or decrease in carrying capacity 

 of the range in a period of twenty- 

 tive years. 



Decrease 

 (per cent). 



40 

 38 



25 



40 



40 



40 

 '35 ] 



8 

 '25 



300 



45 



30 



40 



30 

 40 



20 

 20 

 30 

 85 



85 

 "56 



20 



35 

 64 

 10 



10 

 11 

 64 



28 

 75 



30 

 '46 



640 

 6 90 



1,000 

 300 



200 



100 

 100 

 100 

 210 



600 

 256' 



100 



200 to 640 

 150 



35 

 25 



10 

 33 



50 

 50 

 50 

 e5 to 17 

 38 



38 

 27 



33 

 29 

 29 

 38 

 33 



25 

 50 

 50 

 26 

 40 



29 



160 



200 

 ' 266 



126' to 266 



12 

 50 

 50 



33 

 33 

 50 



Neither de- 

 crease nor 

 increase. 



(a) 



(a) 



(a) 



(a) 

 (a) 



(a) 



(a) 

 (a) 



(a) 



(a) 

 '(a) 



(a) 



ia) 

 W 



(a) 

 (a) 

 (a) 

 (a) 



(a) 

 (a) 



(a) 



(a) 



(a) 



Increase 

 (per cent). 



(d) 



(d) 



20 to 25 



(d) 



33 to 50 



(d) 

 "(d)" 



(d) 



(d) 



a No decrease except through occasional bad seasons. 



c March to November. d Marked improvement. 



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6 Decrease from brush. 

 e In twenty years. 



