RANGE AND CATTLE MANAGEMENT DURING DROUGHT. Dit 
TABLE 8.—Rate of stocking during year, percentage of reduction of stocking 
during growing season, percentage of utilization of forage, and reduction in 
forage stand in pasture 2, 1913 to 1919. 
Percentage 
_ decrease 
ercentage | or increase 
Actual reduction | in grazing poueeniage 
acres in average during OtOnase 
Year. per cow yearly growing | Sic gee 
year stocking season Bierce 
long. from 1913 | compared Senco 8 
rate. with i 
yearly 
average. 
1 GIS AME ERE NS OUI MEU OS REM sare A Oey ey A Sia MUA RRL ZOU ON Wes a —35. 3 100 
CHIN, ened ame Arisa UPON ne SO: Ac SEU Orr eA MUN ESE HVE yea 47.0 43.5 —62.1 57 
TIONS See ee Se a0 oe MI he AS late Ae Oo Ah aed 33.1 19.8 —30. 8 80 
NOMS ee I et AST yO I NU ee a A a Te 43.9 39.3 02. 6 90 
DEG Ae Je are eae i AO UER tre MeN, SEP Pate AN MERE CINE REPOS ARETE Ey 44,3 40.1 44.6 125 
ISHS Me ES ai AEN bse tN) Se MUA Pa ARO gn STO EM aa 90.2 71.5 36. 1 90 
1 82,900 pounds of cottonseed cake were fed to stock in this pasture in the spring of 1918. While this 
feeding served largely to keep cattle from getting too poor it allowed utilization approximately 25 per cent 
above estimated proper rate of stocking. 
Table 8 shows that this pasture was stocked at approximately the 
annual yearlong rate during the growing season of 1916, but that 
during 1917 and 1918 stocking was considerably heavier during the 
growing period at this season than for the year as a whole. 
PASTURE 5 OF THE JORNADA RANGE RESERVE. 
Pasture 5 of the reserve is an area of 2,815 acres primarily of good 
grama-grass range. In the spring of 1915 this area was about 44 
per cent below what it should have been, and deterioration was at- 
tributed largely to overstocking during the main growing season for 
several years previous. In 1916 the average number of stock in this 
pasture was reduced 35.5 per cent, with a slightly greater reduction 
during the growing season; in 1917 the average number of stock was 
reduced 33.8 per cent from the rate during 1915, and 54 per cent 
during the growing season; in 1918 the average for the year was 
again heavier than the 1915 stocking, but during the growing season 
grazing was less than 50 per cent of the average for the year. 
RESULTS OF THE VARIOUS DEGREES AND PERIODS OF GRAZING. 
The effects of the condition of drought prevailing and different time 
and degrees of grazing practiced on the various areas are shown in 
Table 9 and compared graphically in figure 7. 
Under the conditions of drought and grazing prevailing during 
1916 the outside range about held its own as compared with 1915, 
but it deteriorated 21.5 per cent in 1917 and 39.9 per cent further 
in 1918. In 1919 there was a slight but real gain in conditions, so 
that the total deterioration during the drought period was about 60 
per cent as compared with the condition of this range in 1916. The 
