18 GOVERNMENT FOREST WORK. 



Larger sales are made either by the supervisor of the 

 Forest, the district forester, or the Forester, according 

 to the amount desired. 



Small sales of timber for local use are encouraged. 

 This is one of the ways in which the National Forests 

 are made to serve the small lumberman and consumer. 

 Though single sales have been made for as much as 

 800,000,000 board feet, over nine-tenths of the sales 

 are for $100 worth of timber or less. Of the 12,570 

 timber sales on the National Forests in the fiscal year 

 1921, 12,236 were of this latter kind. 



Homestead settlers and farmers may obtain Na- 

 tional Forest timber for their own use at the actual 

 cost of making the sale. No charge is made for the 

 timber itself. This is one of the ways in which the 

 National Forests are made to serve local residents. 



Grazing. 



Along with the timber on the National Forests there 

 is a great deal of grazing land, and this is used at 

 present by over 7,000,000 sheep and goats and 2,000,000 

 cattle, horses, and swine every year in addition to 

 their natural increase. Local settlers and stockmen 

 have the first right to the use of the range, just as in 

 the case of the other resources, and every man who 

 grazes stock on the Forests under permit is allotted 

 a certain area for the grazing season. Unfair com- 

 petition between the big man and the little man, 

 which in the old days worked so much harm, is done 

 away with. A good supply of forage year after year 

 is insured by not allowing the land to be overcrowded 

 with stock. Under regulation overgrazed range is 

 improved, instead of being further run down or de- 

 nuded, as has been the case with many of the outside 

 public lands. 



