UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
} BULLETIN No. 588 He 
Contribution from the Forest Service 
HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester 
Washington, D. C. v November 15, 1917 
INCREASED CATTLE PRODUCTION ON SOUTH- 
WESTERN RANGES. 
By James T. Jarpine, Inspector of Grazing, and L. C. Hurt, Grazing Examiner. 
CONTENTS. 
Page. Page. 
Better range management.................-. 1 | Prevention of loss—Continued. : 
Jornada Range Reserve:......0-.0.02.260 6.2. 2 Concentrated feed (cottonseed cake) to 
Range improvement by naturalrevegetation. 4 supplement range forage........------- 24 
Water development...........22...... Stk 9 | Providing roughages: * a7). -2---seeseus 26 
PALEY INO CATACIL Y= 2 teeter het ees 12 EPreventionor blackleg 5.22255 seca 27 
The reserve as 2 whole...............-..-- 16 | Total loss...- +... 2-2-2 ++ 222s sees eres eee 28 
Grama-grass (winter) range.............. Ge lee COMCLASTOMS 3 ois ey a ne emai ene teree 28 
TEENA AE OSCIVGne ee te eee foe 16. | Range improvement by natural revegeta- 
Wnienced ranpe-, 2252 22..6 2. 18 | CLOT eo erse sa ae eto eee ee ee 28 
Reinincmrance see: seria oe nae eo taK 19 Weaterdevelopiientias.205 1-1 ieee oe ae 29 
Manntainranves sey! 9.005 5) ey ee 19 Canny ile \CADACLU caer nace eects 29 
Increase in calf crop and improvement in Increase in calf crop and improvement in 
ceri GESTOCK ot 15. e kee nee ea ee 20 gradelol stock =— oa bene nee see me 30 
Pacmen tion of lossy 12 ao ao sk S52) bokeh 23 _ Prevention of loss....-...... -.....- janine 31 
Holding range forage for use during criti- List of publications. .........--........+.++- a2 
CalisprineMOnens yee a sce ccs ccceee = 23 | 
BETTER RANGE MANAGEMENT. 
This bulletin presents the results of experiments which bear 
directly on the problem of how to produce more and better cattle 
on western range lands, a matter of pressing importance in view of 
the present need for increasing the Nation’s food supply. 
It is generally conceded that the carrying capacity of the remaining 
areas of public range is at least 25 per cent less than it was originally, 
the result of grazing stock at improper seasons and overstocking. 
It is also a fact that the productiveness of many privately owned 
ranges, both fenced and unfenced, has been reduced through faulty 
management. To work out a system of range management and 
improvement practicable for large grazing units, which will build 
up the depleted areas and insure the maintenance of the whole rango 
in good condition, is one of the important objects of grazing studies 
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