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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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Fic. 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 in 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! (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 
Tanges bemg under the same climatic conditions. The difference in condition reported is attributed, 
therefore, primarily to the improved management in effect on the controlled range. 
