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WESTERN GRAZING GROUNDS AND FOREST RANGES 



Motherless calves, 88. 

 Mountain bu'nch grass, 70. 



forage, 61. 



lion, best bait for, 339. 



lions, hard to trap, 331. 



mahogany, 43, 61, 65. 



meadows, 70. 



parks, 66. 

 Moving ewes and lambs to 



mountains, 154. 



Mules, killing young stock, 78. 

 Mustangs, 98, 99. 

 Mutton eating in America, 106. 



sheep, hard to herd, 106. 



type of sheep, 106. 



National Forests, cattle vs. 

 sheep, 215. 



competitive bids for use of, 

 221. 



exchange of land, 223. 



fencing privileges, 219. 



free grazing on, 211. 



grazing fees low, 220. 



grazing fees on, 200. 



Government not forced to 

 fence, 219. 



improvement of ranges, 212. 



lambs grazed free, 225. 



livestock upon, 208. 



number of stock upon, 224. 



permits for more than one 

 year, 219. 



permit system on, 216. 



policy liberal, 211. 



private lands in, 223. 



protective and maximum 

 limits, 217. 



purchase of stock using, 218. 



ranges, comparison of fees, 

 221. 



reductions in numbers, 217. 



stock losses in, 224. 



stock permits not salable, 

 218. 



use of by stockmen, 209. 



value of permits, 218. 

 Navajo blankets, 102. 



Indians as sheep owners, 103 

 Needle grass, 43, 246. 

 Neighbors not desired, 82. 

 Nesters, the, 87. 



New Mexico, cost of grazing 

 sheep, 200. 



introduction of sheep into, 

 103. 



loco in, 260. 



pastures, charges for, 199. 



sheep herders required, 204. 

 Night herding, 131. 



of sheep, 152. 

 North Park, Colorado, 66. 

 Northern range, 33, 64. 



Oak poisoning, stock losses 

 from, 268. 



Oak poisoning, symptoms and 



remedies, 269, 278. 

 Ohio, cost of raising sheep, 206. 

 Oil, linseed, use of, 279. 

 Orchard grass, 242, 265. 

 Oregon wind, 368. 

 Overgrazing, 244. 

 Overstocking, damage from, 



231. 



Pack pockets, 370, 374. 

 Pack saddles, 365. 



saw buck type, 366. 

 Packing, 365. 

 Pacing horses, peculiarities of, 



350. 



Panhandle of Texas, 89. 

 Parsnip, wild (see water hem- 

 lock), 267. 

 Paunching, 254, 274. 



how accomplished, 255. 

 Pea vine (see lupine), 265. 

 Per capita system of grazing, 



216. 

 Permanganate of potash, use 



of, 250, 269, 277, 279. 

 Permit system on National 



Forests. 216. 

 Pike, Captain, 97. 

 Pingue plant, losses from, 269. 

 poisoning, symptoms and 



remedies, 280. 

 Poisoning predatory animals, 



335. 

 Poisonous plants, choking out, 



do animals know them, 246. 



losses from, 246. 



injurious to sheep, 247. 



symptoms and remedies, 249, 



274. 



Polled Angus cattle, 95. 

 Porcupine grass. 43, 246. 

 Poverty grass, 72. 

 Prairie dog grass, 343. 

 Prairie dogs and rattlesnakes, 

 340. 



damage to range from, 339. 



digging to water, 340. 



grass destroyed by, 343. 



poison, how placed, 346. 



preparing poison for, 344. 

 Prairie June grass, 64. 

 Predatory animals, 224. 



losses from, 327. 

 Prickly pear, feeding of, 57. 



spineless variety, 58. 

 Private lands in National For- 

 ests, 223, 



Protective' limits 217. 

 Prussic acid in kaflr corn and 



sorghum, 280. 

 Public ranges, bill for control 



of, 377. 

 Pueblo Indians, 102. 



