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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



FOREST NOTES. 



Switzerland has four cooperative associations 

 for the growing and marketing of forest products. 



The U. S. forest service is using gasoline rail- 

 way speeders for fire protection purposes. They 

 follow up trains on steep grades where sparks 

 thrown out by forced draft are likely to start fires 

 along the right of way. 



Forest officers have found that high power 

 telescopes are not always satisfactory in fire-look- 

 out work. In some localities heat vibrations in 

 the atmosphere are so magnified by the glass that 

 clearer vision can be had with the unaided eye. 



At the national conservation congress to be 

 held in Washington, November 18-20, the subject 

 of forestry will be handled by a main committee, 

 with sub-committees which will report on federal 

 and state forest policies, forest taxation, fires, lum- 

 bering, planting, utilization, forest schools, and sci- 

 entific forest investigations. 



Elk have been found in the Uinta national for- 

 est, Utah, for the first time in many years. Since 

 they are not from shipments from the Jackson Hole 

 country to neighboring forests, the state and federal 

 officials are gratified at this apparent increase in 

 big game, as the result of protection. 



Approximately $30,000, or 35 percent of the 

 government's receipts last year from grazing fees 

 on the national forests of Montana, goes into the 

 state for schools and roads, according to an an- 



nouncement by the U. S. forest service. Returns to 

 the government from grazing resources in the state 

 during the year total about $84,000, of which the 

 counties in which the forests are situated get about 

 $29,000. This is in addition to receipts of $177,000 

 from other forest resources, returning into the state 

 a total of $90,000. 



For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, grazing 

 permits were issued on Montana forests for 121,- 

 251 cattle, 15,858 horses, 716,191 sheep and 900 goats. 

 Compared with the preceding year the figures show 

 substantial increases for all stock except goats, 

 which show a decrease of 370 head. In all, 2,312 

 permits were issued, a gain of 42 over the preceding 

 fiscal year, and an increase of 5,570 cattle, 552 

 horses, and 29,803 sheep for > 1912 is shown. 



The national forests of Montana contain an 

 abundance of first class summer range, according 

 to the forest service report, but a considerable por- 

 tion of this range is said to be remote from the 

 spring, fall, and winter ranges and the source of 

 forage supply. For this reason it is not yet stocked 

 to its full capacity, but the government is said to 

 be making a determined effort to secure the full 

 utilization of all forage resources and predicts that 

 within a few years at most the national forest ranges 

 of the state will be stocked to their normal grazing 

 capacity. The ranges now, it is stated, if fully 

 grazed, would accommodate at least 177,000 cattle 

 and horses and 873,000 sheep and goats. 



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