xxxiv INTRODUCTION 



suited in better growth and better weights on stock 

 and more actual profit. There are ample data that 

 show that the National Forests produce some of 

 the best lambs that are put upon the market. Data 

 secured from the Modoc National Forest, Cali- 

 fornia, in 1910, show that lambs brought 50 cents 

 per head more and weighed an average of 10 

 pounds more than lambs produced outside the For- 

 est. Weights taken of 10,000 head showed an av- 

 erage of 72 pounds for National Forest lambs, 

 while outside the Forest average weights on 3,000 

 lambs showed only 62 pounds. The regulation of 

 the length of the grazing season, the introduction 

 of better methods of handling sheep, and the pre- 

 vention of over-grazing are some of the Forest 

 Service methods that produce better lambs. 



Then also under the old system the valuable 

 water-power sites were being rapidly eliminated 

 from government ownership by large corporations 

 who secured valuable property for a song. The 

 National Forests, however, still contain about one- 

 third of the potential water-power resources of the 

 United States and over 40 per cent, of the esti- 

 mated power resources of the Western States. 

 And this vast wealth will not pass from the owner- 



