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open range. Feeding stock in times of scarcity of range feed is indi- 
cated even under the present system of management, but this very 
desirable improvement can hardly be expected to occur till a better 
form of land tenure is guaranteed. 
(S) The opposition to some legalized system of control is to-day 
more a passive than an active one and is due mostly to a fear of quite 
uncertain and indefinite possible, but not probable, consequences. 
There is every reason to expect that, whatever the system, those in 
possession of the range would be given legal control of the land they 
occupied at the time the system went into effect, assuming that they 
complied with the requirements. 
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