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Additional references {arranged chronologically). 



Potter, Albert F. Questions Regarding the Public Grazing Lands of the Western 

 United States. Senate Document 189, Fifty-eighth Congress, third session, 

 Appendix, pp. 5-25, 1905. 



Coville, Frederick V. A Report on Systems of Leasing Large Areas of Grazing 

 Land. Senate Document 189, Fifty-eighth Congress, third session, Appendix, 

 pp. 26-61, 1905. 



Thornber, J. J. The Grazing Ranges of Arizona. Arizona Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, Bulletin 65, 1910. 



Wooton, E. O. Factors Affecting Range Management in New Mexico. U. S. 

 Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 211, 1915. 



Barnes. Will C, and Jardine, James T. Livestock Production in the Eleven 

 Far Western Range States. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Sec- 

 retary, Report No. 110, Part II, 1916. 



Wooton, E. O. Carrying Capacity of Grazing Ranges in Southern Arizona. 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 367, 1916. 



Jardine, James T., and Hurtt, L. C. Increased Cattle Production on South- 

 western Ranges. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 588, 1917. 



Winkjer, Joel G. Cooperative Bull Associations. U. S. Department of Agri- 

 culture, Farmers' Bulletin 993, 1918. 



Sampson, Arthur W., and Weyl, L. H. Range Preservation and Its Relation to 

 Erosion Control on Western Grazing Lands. U. S. Department of Agricul- 

 ture, Bulletin 675. 1918. 



Forsling, Clarence L. Chopped Soapweed as Emergency Feed for Cattle on 

 Southwestern Ranges. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 745, 1919. 



MANAGEMENT OF SHEEP ON THE RANGE. 



CONTROL. 



Control over the number and distribution of stock is a fundamental 

 requirement of effective range management. Control of the number 

 of sheep entering a National Forest or any large range unit of the 

 Forest is comparatively simple. The sheep are under a herder and 

 can be counted in at the Forest boundary and be driven to a range 

 unit in a given time over an established route. On the unfenced 

 sheep ranges of the public domain such control is lacking ; and, as a 

 consequence, these ranges are run down and in many places are still 

 deteriorating. 



On ranges of the National Forests the problems in sheep manage- 

 ment are: (1) To establish range sheep units; (2) to get the sheep 

 on these units with the least damage to the range ; (3) to prevent tres- 

 pass from one range unit to another; and (4) to see that the sheep are 

 so handled as to secure uniform distribution of grazing and full 

 utilization of the forage. 



ESTABLISHING SHEEP EAXGE UNITS. 



In general, the practice on ranges within the National Forests has 

 been to divide the sheep range into units which will furnish sufficient 

 forage for a band of sheep during the established grazing period. In 

 some cases the range unit, or allotment, includes range for several 

 bands of sheep owned by one permittee. 



The assignment of an individual range to each band places respon- 

 sibility for proper use of the range squarely upon the individuals 



