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i point where the business becomes too small to be 

 landled at a profit or to contribute its proper share 

 oward the maintenance of a home. The average 

 lumber of stock which a settler must graze in order 

 o utilize the products of his farm and derive a 

 easonable profit is determined upon each Forest 

 >r, if necessary, upon each grazing district thereof, 

 ind serves as the basis for the protective limit, 

 ^rotective limits have been established for various 

 forests running from 25 to 300 head of cattle and 

 rom 500 to 2,000 head of sheep and goats. 



Increases above the protective limit are allowed 

 inly to purchasers of stock and ranches of permit 

 lolders and any such increase must not exceed the 

 naximum limit. Class A permittees owning a less 

 lumber of stock than the protective limit are al- 

 owed to increase their number gradually. When- 

 ver it is found necessary to reduce the number of 

 tock allowed in any National Forest, Class C stock 

 s excluded before the other classes are reduced. 

 Che reduction on a sliding scale is then applied to 

 }lass B owners. Class A owners are exempt from 

 eduction. When new stock owners are allowed 

 he use of National Forest range upon a Forest 

 Iready fully stocked, reductions in the number of 



