36 BULLETIN 1031, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
TABLE 12.—Grazing capacity of pasture 10, 1915 to 1919. 
[Area of pasture, 4,805 acres.] 
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; Average | Estimated | Estimated sear 
. acres |percentof| grazing | 0 77780 
Period, July 1 to June 30. per head | available | capacity Dey Guti e 
per year forage inacres.)t| Cone pee 
; De on pro- 
(365 days).| utilized. | per head. | tected area. 
AGQIS=16 2 5 ee ee eee eh 32.5 85 27.6 | TESA Ns. 
VOIGT 7.2 BRS ESE ia UN a Ore ieee 43.2 90 30./Ou eves 
TET lt eh ee EHR hr SMR es NY nee pF RANA ERIE her 20.1 1183 3658 | tase 
AGIBAGS Fo COP ee IB Rae eee eee ere een ee 33.5 100 | 
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164,500 pounds of cottonseed cake were fed in this pasture during winter and spring of 1918, which in- 
creased utilization 83 per cent. 
2 Mostly short-age yearlings in the pasture. 
TABLE 13.—Estimated grazing capacity of outside range, 1914 to 1919. 
Average | Estimated | Estimated Condition 
acres per cent of grazing oitTa ge oe 
Period, July 1 to June 30. per head | available | capacity | PE O° 
forage inacres, | °° oe 
per year on 
, rr’ pro- 
(365 days).| utilized. | per head. | + .cteq area. 
LOUE-15 2 bcc cece saaoeenee set dee sem meraeoce foes ee ter 26.3 125 32. (Ou ecm esee at 
HOV G1 Goo es esearch a ears wee eee Solas © ara ice eeeeinrs Aeere 26.3 125 32.9 45. 4 
IQIGEN Te ono sol ce peepee ee pie oe es eee eee e er ere “ee 32. 8 125 41.0 40.0 
NOU TELS se oiey es nie yee ra ear = ale ae sysiate eines cain wat ae Soe 81.1 125 101. 4 34. 2 
LOLS MIG esse EP ES SE a. oie sees ase ae ea aera oe oe aerate 98. 5 100 98. 5 17.6 
AY) tO Bee eaeoncab hecenaendaaeeednedsoce sqeHounec se send Snacoboondba| Sobcsnecobed bose ocecdoce 27.1 
A comparison of these tables shows that estimated carrying ca- 
pacity of the four areas was approximately the same for the annual 
period ending June 30, 1916. Pastures 2 and 10, with an average of 
27 acres per head per year, were probably at their maximum aver- 
age carrying capacity in 1915-16, having had the opportunity to 
reach this condition through very light grazing during the grow- 
ing period for several seasons previous. Pasture 5 and the outside 
range were slightly below their maximum on account of overstock- 
ing yearlong with no opportunity for recuperation during the 
growing season for several years previous. 
Table 10 shows that the average grazing for each year in pasture 
2 exceeded the estimated grazing capacity for the respective year only 
in 1918, and that the excess in 1918 was due mainly to the feeding of 
80,900 pounds of cottonseed cake to stock in the pasture. It is prob- 
able that the average grazing for the year was slightly in excess of 
the amount of forage. This slight excess, however, does not account 
for the depreciation of pasture 2 from 108 per cent of the pro- 
tected areas in 1915-16 to 34.6 per cent of the same protected areas 
in 1918-19. As pointed out in the last chapter this seemingly un- 
warranted depreciation was attributed primarily to the failure to 
reduce grazing during the growing season, July to October. 
