UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

 FOREST SERVICE. 



THE NATIONAL FOREST MANUAL. 



AMENDMENT NO. 144 INSTRUCTIONS. 



DECEMBER 3, 1912. 



Grazing. The first paragraph of the Instructions on page 42 is 

 hereby amended to read as follows: 



Protective limits are established to protect permittees from reduc- 

 tions in the number of stock which they are allowed to graze under 

 permit to a point where it is inadequate to maintain a home or is 

 too small to be handled at a profit. The average number of stock 

 which a settler must graze in order to utilize the products of his 

 farm or derive a reasonable profit will be determined upon each 

 Forest or, if necessary, upon each grazing district^ thereof, and will 

 serve as the basis for the protective limit. In arriving at this aver- 

 age number the dependence of settlers upon National Forest ranges 

 will be considered. Where stock growing is the only pursuit in a 

 region, the number of stock guaranteed a settler must be sufficient 

 to support his family. In an agricultural region where the product 

 of the farms is fed to stock, the number should be sufficient to con- 

 sume the forage produced by the average farm. 



The third paragraph of the Instructions on page 42 is hereby 

 amended to read as follows : 



When in the judgment of the district forester it becomes neces- 

 sary for the protection of class A owners, he will establish protective 

 limits for each kind of stock, and renewals of all permits within such 

 limits will be made without reduction. It will be within the discre- 

 tion of the district forester to establish limits uniformly applicable 

 to the entire Forest or special limits for each grazing district of the 

 Forest. A holder of a permit for one class of stock may secure a 

 permit for another class, providing the number holds the same ratio 

 to the protective limit. For example: A holder of a cattle permit 

 for 50 head on a Forest where the protective limit is 100 head may 

 also be allowed a permit to graze 600 sheep if the protective limit on 

 sheep is 1,200 head. 



HENRY S. GRAVES, 



Forester. 



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