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The total number of sheep and goats includes about 3,000,000 

 lambs and kids, which in the issuance of permits have been counted as 

 equal to 1,500,000 grown animals, leaving a net number of 4,262,200 

 grown sheep and goats covered by permit. 



Onh'^ 1,447, or 8 per cent, of the applicants failed to pay the fees 

 and accept the permits applied for, and many of these will make pay- 

 ment before the close of the season. The ' abundance of feed out- 

 side of the reserves was one cause of the failure to use permits. 



In reserves established or put under administration after May 1, 

 all stock on the reser\e ranges at the time of their creation or whose 

 owners had regularly used the range during previous vears were al- 

 lowed to graze without permit during the season of 1906. 



CEOSSING PEElVtITS. 



Applications were made by 244 owners or lessees of private lands 

 withi?-! ;^0 of the reserves for the privilege of driving a total of 18,823 

 head of cattle and horses and 118,438 head of sheep across reserve 

 lands to reach 574,397 acres of private land. In 177 cases the OAvners 

 of the land made special agreements waiving the right to the ex- 

 clusive use of 387,930 acres of this land, and allowing all stock per- 

 mitted to graze on the reserve to enter upon it. In exchange for 

 this concession, permits wQre issued allowing the number of stock 

 the private land would support to be grazed upon the reserve free 

 of charge. 



Under the regulation allowing stock to be driven across, reserve 

 lands in transit between summer and winter ranges and to reach 

 points of shipment, 259 permits were issued by the officers in charge 

 of 29 reserves for the crossing of 12,696 head of cattle and horses and 

 693,540 head of sheep. , 



No permit is required for stock which is driven along the public 

 highway or when reserve lands will not be grazed upon en route. 



QUARANTINE AND IjIVE-STOCK LAWS. 



The Bureau of Animal Industry has required all sheep permitted 

 to graze upon the forest reserves of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, 

 Utah, and Idaho' to be inspected before entering the reserves, and to 

 be dipt when they were found to have been exposed to or infested 

 with scab. In South Dakota this inspection was made to include 

 cattle, and all diseased stock were debarred from entering the reserves. 



In most cases stockmen willingly complied with quarantine regula- 

 tions and marlied improvement in health of stock has followed. Con- 

 tinued enforcement of strict quarantine will entirely eradicate disease 

 from the reserve ranges. 



In several of the reserves the forest officers have rendered valu- 

 able assistance to the stockmert in the enforcement of local live-stock 

 laws, particularly as to the grade and number of bulls turned upon 

 the range and the prevention of loss by theft. 



GRAZING TRESPASS. 



There has been little trespass by grazing without permit. Except 

 where the trespass was wilful, settlement by the payment of reason- 

 able damages has been accepted. When the trespass required exem- 

 plary action or when reasonable propositions of settlement were 



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