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and without the means with which to purchase the livestock which they 

 realize their farms should and could maintain, and also without means to 

 provide shelter for them. We are seeking a means to- offset this lack of 

 capital, the Government, in many instances, bringing in the livestock and 

 selling it to a local association of farmers on credit, also by placing in a 

 large number of communities, bulls and stallions of good quality, so the 

 farmers may at least breed their stock to a better quality of sire. 



Another lack in some districts is lack of adequate and dependable 

 water supply. That, of course, is only in a very few districts a permanent 

 disability. It is practically related to this question of capital. In some dis- 

 tricts where they have to dig from 150 to 200 feet to get water, it is very 

 expensive to put in a good well. It is, however, only a temporary disability. 

 The four sources of water supply are, surface water or streams, shallow 

 wells, the artesian well, and surface reservoirs. Where the reservoir is 

 properly constructed, that is, well protected around the outside with a 

 shelter of willows, assuring that it will be filled up in the spring of the 

 year, the reservoir forms a source of water supply, whether for stock or 

 domestic purposes, which is in advance of many of the surface wells. The 

 Minister of Agriculture has depended, on his own farm, on that source of 

 water supply, for a number of years. 



Another disadvantage is lack of labor supply that would attend to 

 livestock. The Government has sought to overcome this difficulty by es- 

 tablishing a labor office in Great Britain and there picking out men who 

 would prefer handling livestock, and we have given loans to these men to 

 enable them to come out on these farms, and in that way we have brought 

 out several experienced cattlemen. Another drawback is the matter of 

 marketing facilities. The government has established creameries through- 

 out the country, and dairying has tended to increase very rapidly, and 

 marketing facilities for dairy products have been greatly improved. The 

 final drawback is the matter of summer pasture. 



Our Government is alive to the need of linking up dry-farming and 

 livestock, and is working on a solution of the problem. 



DEAN BURNETT: 



I am sure that if all substitutes prove as satisfactory and interesting 

 as Mr. Mantle, we shall have no regret. 



It is now my pleasure to introduce as the next speaker James T. Jar- 

 ine of the United States Forest Service, a brother of our good friend 

 Dean Jardine of Kansas. 



Mr. Jardine will speak on the subject, "Management and Improvement 

 of Lands Suitable for Grazing Within National Forests." 



Address of Mr. Jardine. 

 MANAGEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF LANDS SUITABLE FOR 

 GRAZING WITHIN NATIONAL FORESTS 

 To appreciate fully range management on National Forest lands, its 

 problems and the progress made under regulated grazing, it is essential 



