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BULLETIN 745, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



will make available information upon which to base a satisfactory 

 cutting system. Further investigations may warrant modification 

 in the present cutting practice either by extending or by restricting 

 cutting. Meantime, however, it is believed that the soapweed may 

 be cut for use as an emergency feed without any great damage to 

 the range or danger of depleting the supply for emergency feeding 

 if the suggestions contained in this bulletin relative to selective cut- 

 ting are followed. 



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