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days raking, 10 man-days with the buck ralve, and 95^ man-days for 

 the baling. The total expense for man labor was $122.35. Allow- 

 ing 50 cents per day for a horse's work and his feed (which is about 

 fair for the character of the teams and the amount of gi-ain fed in 

 this work), the horse work cost $11. Besides the regular provisions, 

 a young beef worth probably $25 was killed and the meat used. The 

 total cost of putting up 15 tens of hay was approximately $225, or 

 $5 per ton. Two men, 8 horses, and 2 wagons were kept busy for 16 

 days hauling 40 tons of this hay to the home of the operator about 18 

 miles away, thus adding $2.10 more per ton to the cost of the hay. 

 This allows nothing for depreciation on machinery, which should be 

 quite heavy considering the character of the work. Some of this hay 

 was sold at the baler before weighing, at the rate of $5 for 30 bales. 

 The hay sold gave the operator about 50 cents per ton as net gain 

 besides pajung him $1.25 per day as wages and $1 a da}" per team for 

 his animals, both of which prices are to be considered as good pay 

 in the region for the character of the work performed. 



GRAZING EXPERIMENTS. 



The most instructive data so far obtained upon this reserve are 

 those which have resulted from the actual carrying of stock on 

 measured areas. Eecords have been kept as to the movement of stock 

 on the pastures of four individuals for several years. From these 

 records it is possible to compile: (1) The actual number of daj^s' 

 feed for one mature animal that each pasture has furnished each 

 month. (2) the average number of animals carried by each pasture 

 for each month and each xenr. and (3) the apparent carrying capacity 

 of the areas for each year. These data have been summarized in 

 Table VII and are visualized in figure 5. 



The pastures have been handled independently by the users and 

 according to the judgment of each man as to his own best method. 

 The custom of the region (which had been followed by some of 

 these men before, and continued by three of them since the area was 

 placed under control) is to stock as heavily as the range will carry 

 all the time. 



