

KELLEY: Down in the country south of here the 

 dairymen are depended upon to raise the stock for the cattle 

 max. Tho foothill range has depreciated in value on account 

 of overgrazing and climatic conditions, and the lcr(jer man 

 could not buy sufficient cattle to stoc::-up sufficiently to 

 malce u? the loss on account of the snail nan soin-* out of 

 business. It ras absolutely nooeoaary for hiro to irorchp.se 

 or.ttle and it is not due to any fcult of the ?oreot Service 

 that our [jrazinrj business Is falling off. There lo no 

 chrnce of it coming baol: until there is something done to 

 upbuild the etoc": rrielns industry. 



Ran~e Improvement 



3A3BITT: One small experiment hts boon tried on 

 my district. That is soring red top on a lo~epole flat 

 hrd been rrazod to the limit. This erea was eorn two years 

 a 70 end e.11 the land TT.B vet enough to support the rod top, 

 rhich hes spread all over the flet. The erperi-aont -as a" 

 2-rect success on this crea ar.d the -Trass has come up as thick 

 as it could Btrnd ond ^rom to a height of about to foot. 



FTT.LZY ; On the 31 Dorado the higher mountain 

 meedors vrcre rapidly bein^ depleted by prairie dors or ground 

 squirrels ;nd ^e cr.rrlod on c littlo experiment, end it rmist 

 be scid it '"cs entirely suooessful as fcr as it went. .7e put 

 poisoned -rain on the tree. I to not 1 oiow if vho proper 

 cjuuutity or puison vua used but ovlfonce of tho destruction 

 UC.S founc" both on the rround anc 5 ur/.er the ground. In all 

 ct SOB the squirrels rere found c'ead. 



HATT01T: The Uodoo hr.s racrle a number of ex- 

 periments rith tircothy anc> rod top but they have been a 

 failure. This he.8 beon duo partly to the season of fio yor.r 

 in r;hich tho seed TT&S sor/u. In tho spring of 1910 tho 

 Porostor ~c.vo uc a oertc.in r.raount of money to B;-.end in re- 

 seedin7 oxporinonta. V/o had to ~et bney r.nf- set out un- 

 dcsireblo areas, cud in moot ccses the ri*ocs selected rere 

 render strtions anc enr.ll aror.s of that ohr.rp.oter. The 

 season v/r.s most unf&vorcolo and I thinu: if "the sr.ne ex- 

 periment had been otrrtort in tho full it vrjuld hf'.ve boon a 

 BUOCOSS. 



I tried Itclian Rye -Irass on the Van 

 Ha ran rancor station without turnin-; ir tlio soil. The seed 

 was so~n or. the 23 of Deco-.ber ar.d on Juno ?,?. a her-vy stf.cd 

 of rye -rass ras there. It flic, not stand the drought curing 

 tho summer and ell died out. 



