26 BULLETIN 1031, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
OUTSIDE RANGE. 
Adjoining the Jornada Range Reserve on the west is an area of 
about 98,530 acres, of which about 66,485 acres are the grama-grass 
type. The remainder is primarily of mixed-grass type of less grazing 
value than the grama grass. This area is controlled by private indi- 
viduals and was used to study unregulated grazing as compared with 
regulated grazing on the reserve. Potentially, this range is as good 
as the protected plots on the reserve or better, as is indicated by the 
density and kind of vegetation at points so remote from water that 
stock have rarely ever more than lightly grazed it. 
In 1915 this outside range supported on the average only 45.4 per 
cent as much good forage grasses as similar range in about maximum 
condition under complete protection against grazing. Of inferior 
grass forage, however, the outside range had 14 times as much as the 
protected area. The amount of other vegetation did not differ 
greatly. As a whole, the outside range was considered in condition 
about 50 per cent of the maximum under average growing conditions, 
when the drought began in 1916. This state of depletion was attrib- 
uted to yearlong overstocking, over a period of years previous to 
Gee 
Heavy yearlong grazing was continued on this area during 1916-- 
17 and the early part of 1918. In the spring of 1918 and during 1919, 
however, it was almost completely protected against grazing during 
the main growing season, July 1 to October 1, and the forage was 
fully utilized during the remainder of each year, but the area was 
not overstocked. 
PASTURE 2 OF THE JORNADA RANGE RESERVE. 
Pasture 2 of the reserve contains about 34,545 acres adjoining the 
outside range described on the east. It is primarily grama-grass 
range. This pasture had been lightly grazed during the main grow- 
ing season and slightly undergrazed for the year as a whole, for 
three years prior to July 1, 1916, as shown by Table 8, and under this 
management had improved about 50 per cent as compared with 
similar range grazed year long. In 1915 pasture 2 was considered. 
slightly better in amount of forage per unit of area than the pro- 
tected areas, and almost as good as the maximum later reached by 
the protected areas. 
11 Wully discussed in Department of Agriculture Bulletin 588. 
