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open range. Feeding stock in times of scarcity of range feed is indi- 

 cated even under the present system of management, but this very 

 desirable improvement can hardly be expected to occur till a better 

 form of land tenure is guaranteed. 



(8) The opposition to some legalized system of control is to-day 

 more a passive than an active one and is due mostly to a fear of quite 

 uncertain and indefinite possible, but not probable, consequences. 

 There is every reason to expect that, whatever the system, those in 

 possession of the range would be given legal control of the land they 

 occupied at the time the system went into effect, assuming that they 

 complied with the requirements. 



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