28 BULLETIN 367, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
days raking, 10 man-days with the buck rake, and 95} man-days for 
the baling. The total expense fcr man labor was $122.35. Allow- 
ing 50 cents per day for a horse’s work and his feed (which is about 
fair for the character of the teams and the amount of grain fed in 
this work), the horse work cost $41. Besides the regular provisions, 
a young beef werth probably $25 was killed and the meat used. The 
total cost of putting up 45 tens cf hay was approximately $225, or 
$5 per ton. Two men, 8 horses, and 2 wagons were kept busy for 16 
days hauling 40 tons of this hay to the home of the operator about 18 
miles away, thus adding $2.40 more per ton to the cost of the hay. 
This allows nothing for depreciation cn machinery, which should be 
quite heavy considering the character of the work. Some of this hay 
was sold at the baler before weighing, at the rate of $5 for 30 bales. 
The hay sold gave the operator about 50 cents per ton as net gain 
besides paying him $1.25 per day as wages and $1 a day per team for 
his animals, both of which prices are to be considered as good pay 
in the region for the character of the work performed. 
GRAZING EXPERIMENTS. 
The most instructive data so far obtained upon this reserve are 
those which have resulted from the actual carrying of stock on 
measured areas. Records have been kept as to the movement of stock 
on the pastures of four individuals for several years. From these 
records it is possible to compile: (1) The actual number of days’ 
feed for one mature animal that each pasture has furnished each 
month, (2) the average number of animals carried by each pasture 
for each month and each year, and (3) the apparent carrying capacity 
of the areas for each year. These data have been summarized in 
Table VII and are visualized in figure 5. 
The pastures have been handled independently by the users and 
according to the judgment of each man as to his own best method. 
The custom of the region (which had been followed by some of 
these men before, and continued by three of them since the area was 
placed under control) is to stock as heavily as the range will carry 
all the time. 
