CERTAIN DESERT PLANTS AS EMERGENCY STOCK FEED. 



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The figures for Texas given in Table III are taken from the Report 

 of the State Comptroller for 1916, the latest published. It is not 

 intended to suggest that these emergency feeds are of equal impor- 

 tance to all of these stock, and in the present state of our knowledge 

 it is impossible to give even an estimate of what percentage of the 

 total number of animals here listed have been or are likely to be in 

 any way affected. It is safe to say that a large percentage of cattle 

 that otherwise would have died were saved by this means in the 

 following counties: Arizona — Cochise and Greenlee; New Mexico — 

 Grant, Luna, Dona Ana, Otero, and Eddy; Texas — El Paso, Culber- 

 son, Jeff Davis, Presidio, Reeves, Pecos, Brewster, and Terrell. It 

 is certainly true that the actual total number of animals saved is 

 large, even though the percentage of the total number of animals in 

 the region is not large. In the past it has been not uncommon for 

 cattlemen in this region to suffer losses amounting to 30 per cent or 

 even 40 per cent of their cattle in years of extreme drought, such as . 

 the present period is. If the use of these emergency feeds results in 

 reducing the losses to nothing more than normal, thousands of head 

 of stock will have been saved. 



Table III. — Estimated number of cattle and sheep in certain counties of Arizona, New 



Mexico, and Texas. 



Counties. 



Cattle. 



Sheep. 



Counties. 



Cattle. 



Sheep. 



Arizona, 1917: 



114,000 

 38, 000 

 83; 000 

 29, 000 

 71, 000 

 56, 000 



9,000 



Texas — Continued . 



Presidio 



41,934 

 63,809 

 29,369 



4,623 

 11,959 

 71,366 

 18,826 

 33,232 

 22,337 



6,349 

 18,223 

 16,322 

 18,879 

 20,000 

 27,788 

 55,493 

 19,061 

 29,938 

 10,645 

 23,776 

 17,940 

 52,871 

 40,907 

 42,510 

 39,860 

 26,799 



2,510 





Brewster 



7,600 

 715 







Reeves. r ... . 







Loving . '. 









Winkler 





Pinal 



8,000 



Pecos 



66,525 







67,406 

 227,695 



Total 



391,000 



17, 000 



Valverde 





Bailey. . . 







140,000 

 40,000 

 50, 000 

 30,000 



150, 000 

 40, 000 

 50, 000 

 70, 000 

 90, 000 

 60,000 

 30,000 

 50,000 



6,000 



20, COO 



2,000 



8,000 



440, 000 



25,000 



ISO, 000 



70,000 



200, 000 



5,000 



1,000 



50, 000 



Cochran 



1,975 





Hocklev. . . 





Yoakum 



5 





Terrv 



209 





Dawson 



1,000 



Socorro 



Andrews 





Otero 



Martin 



27 





Ector 



62 



Eddy 



Midland . . . 



51 



Chaves 



Crane 





Roosevelt 



Upton 



4,758 



15,630 



90,825 



50,478 



142,012 



Curry 



Reagan 





Crockett.. . 







Total 



800,000 



1,007,000 



Sutton 







90,711 

 34,311 



Texas, 1917: 



45,312 



34,917 

 51,876 



1,335 

 4,700 



Kinney 





Total 







896,812 



810,540 













ARGUMENT FOR FEEDING RANGE STOCK. 



There are no more loyal citizens in our Nation than the western 

 stockmen. Nothing is needed to stimulate their patriotic endeavors 

 except to point out clearly to them the relation of their business to 



