170 OUR USE OF THE LAND 



A brief outline of the various other government agencies 

 cooperating with or working alongside the Forest Service 

 Range Experiment Stations gives some i^iea of how the whole 

 complicated machinery is brought to bear on one land-use 

 problem. In addition to the Forest Service, there are six other 

 bureaus in the Department of Agriculture working on the 

 range problem. The Bureau of Plant Industry studies the 

 plants of the range and the problems of keeping proper pasture 

 and forage crops. The Bureau of Animal Industry studies 

 the relation between animal husbandry and poisonous range 

 plants. The Biological Survey works on the wild-life angle of 

 the range problem. The Bureau of Entomology and Plant 

 Quarantine concentrates on the insect problem. The Bureau 

 of Agricultural Chemistry and Engineering develops methods 

 and machinery best suited to the needs of range soils. The 

 Bureau of Agricultural Economics tries to draw up plans which 

 will solve the range problem. The Soil Conservation Service 

 works on range erosion. The Farm Security Administration tries 

 to work out better conditions for the ranchers. The Bureau of 

 Census of the Department of Commerce collects statistics about 

 livestock, pastures, crops, farms, and ranches in the range coun 

 try. The Tariff Commission studies costs and returns on range 

 products such as wool and beef. The Division of Gracing in the 

 Department of the Interior, like the Forest Service Range 

 division, studies the whole problem of the range as it relates to 

 the land under its authority. 



In addition to these, there are the State agricultural experi 

 ment stations in the range states, the laboratories of the colleges 

 in the area, and private organisations like the Boyce Thompson 

 Institute for plant research all of which try to find solutions 

 for range problems. 20 With all of these agencies working at 



20 Range Research in the United States by W. R. Chapline, Chief, Division of 

 Range Research, Forest Service, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, 1937, 

 pp. 3-4. 



