FEED 
GRAZING 
All of the unshaded district (Map B) and the large 
parks in the pine timber are covered with buffalo and 
bunch grass, and grass in abundance grows through 
the open pine timber. 
At the time of my visit the feed adjoining the water 
was closely fed over. There were about five hundred 
head of stock feeding on the Park, and, with the exception 
of cows and mares with young, it was in good condition. 
This coming season will be the first in thirty-five 
years that stock will have to be hay-fed. 
Hay 
During normal seasons hay can be cut on the Re- 
serve. I would suggest that the broken ground on the 
farms be seeded in timothy and alfalfa, and the crop 
saved for winter feed. The crop from a normal season 
would have to be reserved for a dry one, for, as the lands 
are not irrigated, no hay can be grown even on the culti- 
vated lands in a dry season. 
CLIMATE 
During the winter months the temperature ranges 
between zero and freezing point. It sometimes reaches 
twenty degrees below zero, but not often. 
Ice eight inches thick is sometimes harvested from 
the pool formed by the dam on the north side. 
The snow is never deeper than eight inches, and 
such falls are rare. Snow remains on the ground but a 
short time and never hinders feeding. 
In summer time the thermometer rarely registers 
ninety-five degrees, the usual temperature being between 
sixty and eighty degrees. 
FENCING 
The entire amount of boundary fencing required 
is about seventeen and one-half miles. 
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