INCREASED CATTLE PRODUCTION. 



pasture the amount of medium good forage begins to decrease 

 rapidly at about the same distance from water that the good forage 

 begins to increase rapidly. This fact is important in showing that 

 the good forage plants will eventually crowd out the less valuable 

 species if given a chance to grow. 



Besides increasing in density and forage value, the plants on the 

 pasture range have regained their vigor until they produce about 20 

 per cent more leaves and stems per plant than do similar plants on 

 the outside range. 



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FIG. 1. Comparative density of vegetation on Pasture 2, Jornada Range Reserve, and adjacent 



outside range. 



Considering the difference in number and kind of plants and the 

 difference in the amount of forage produced per plant, it is safe to 

 say that the range hi Pasture 2 of the Jornada Reserve has improved 

 approximately 50 per cent in producing capacity since it was fenced 

 in the fall of 1912, as compared with similar adjoining unfenced 

 range, and that this improvement has been brought about pri- 

 marily J (1) by light grazing (a little less than half the estimated 



1 Precipitation considerably above normal in 1913 and 1914 no doubt was an important aid to improve- 

 ment. The measure of the improvement here given, however, is the difference in condition between the 

 fenced ranges and adjoining unfenced range as a result of three years under different management, both 

 ranges being under the same climatic conditions. The difference in condition reported is attributed, 

 therefore, primarily to the improved management in effect on the controlled range. 



