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to enter into live-stock production for themselves. Owing to the seri- 

 ously overgrazed condition of the public-domain lands, due to the lack 

 of control of live stock and the general recognition of the ever-increas- 

 ing depletion of these vast areas on the part of the stockmen, it is prac- 

 tically certain that the remaining acreage will very soon come under the 

 ■control of the Federal or the State Government,^ or a homestead law 

 so liberal in the matter of grazing will be enacted as to result in the 

 remaining lands passing into private owneship. In any event, a great 

 demand and opportunity for the range technician is assured. 



According to the Federal statistics of 1917, there are 160,000,000 acres 

 ■of unimproved farm land east of the Mississippi, a considerable part 

 of which is at present grazed. The demand for increased production 

 of .meats and animal by-products in 1918 greatly stimulated grazing on 

 these lands. With this demand constantly increasing, it is quite prob- 

 able that the need for pasture on the privately owned eastern lands, as 

 elsewhere, will be appreciably expanded in the near future. xA.lso, live- 

 stock production is certain to expand appreciably on the National For- 

 ests in the East. In fact, there is already considerable competition for 

 range on much of the eastern Forest range, where numerous intricate 

 and urgent grazing problems have already presented themselves for 

 solution. 



When it is recalled that the acreage upon which the live stock in this 

 country is grazed is practically twice that of our improved farm prop- 

 erty, the need for training men in the management of our grazing re- 

 sources, the crop of which must be harvested annually or it is forever 

 lost, requires no argument. It is a pressing requirement of the State 

 and the Nation. 



AUXILIARY COURSES 



In the preparation of the syllabus for grazing courses, the writer has 

 had in mind the training of two classes of men: (i) the pastoral tech- 

 nician, or grazing expert, and (2) the forest technician, or profession- 

 ally trained forester. The grazing expert would be expected to cover 

 the entire field of study as here proposed, while the forest expert would 

 pursue only certain broad grazing subjects, the exact courses of which 

 will be mentioned later. 



The educational requirements for training in the profession of range 

 management certainly should be equal to those for other scientific pro- 



^ Several live-stock associations and statesmen in western States have taken 

 steps to procure Federal or State control of the remaining public-domain lands 

 in order to prevent further demoralization of their live-stock interests. 



