years to maintain this production. We don't feel that we will have to go 

 back throiigh the furrows for at least twenty years and this points out one 

 other thing. I read where one scientist stated that throughout the world 

 we are losing about one inch of topsoil every 100 years. With contour fur- 

 rowing, we feel after twelve years that we have accumulated sotoe topsoil 

 and very possibly have reversed this trend of topsoil loss and maybe build- 

 ing topsoil at the rate of two inches every 100 years. 



We have other research projects going on at the ranch and we will see 

 familiar faces. This is an experimental plot of basin wildrye. I feel a 

 very strong need for other plants not particularly grasses when we come to 

 grips inevitably, I feel, with the reseeding of tremendous amo\ints of ran- 

 geland that is now being torn up for farming. I think that we are going to 

 need a lot of other range plants not only grass because cattle and wildlife 

 don't eat only grass. We have other research projects with different alfal- 

 fas. I think this is something that we need more emphasis on. At Calgary, 

 Alberta, at a Society for Range Management Section Tour and Meeting, I point- 

 ed out the great need for desirable and \indesirable research. Of course, I 

 was laughed at because I feel we need to know what not to do just as much 

 as we need to know what to do. We continued research on furrows that have 

 been in existence for twelve years. This photograph tells you that we are 

 discing down some tops. The production on this has been rather amazing to 

 us at least and we want to know what the potential is if we disc the top 

 down what will happen? If we start to fill the bottom in, will it increase, 

 or will it decrease? We went in with the same machine and broke the centers 

 out turned partially back in, and turned plumb back in. These are two exper- 

 iments that we are working on now in this area. This work was done in the 

 spring. After ten years, we fertilized an area and we cannot see any differ- 

 ence in production after two years. We have reduced big sagebrush but that 

 that is left seems to be much healthier than that on control areas. We have 

 several hundred acres of range like this and if you will notice the alfalfa 

 in the foreground this happens to be on a sandier site. You can see the 

 western wheatgrass is coming in real well. 



Now there are some fringe benefits, we feel quite surely, for a lot of 

 other people besides the rancher. For one, the taxpayer that has to help 

 finance our roads and other public utilities. I think that by controlling 



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