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BULLETIX 1001, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
Table 6. — Data obtained from stockmen using ranges within the limits of the Atlantic 
and Pacific Railway land grant [12.] 
Cattlemen. 
Sheepmen. 
Data. 
Average 
percentage. 
Number 
reporting. 
Average 
percentage. 
Number 
reporting. 
Estimates of losses: *. 
Normal 
'8 
16 
18 
26 
16 
52 
49 
45 
34 
55 
50 
23 
37 
6 
36 
19 
27 
48 
58 
44 
9 
20 
17 
60 
67 
78 
76 
58 
48 
90 
35 
For 1917 
For 1918 
25 
Forced reduction of breeding stock: 
In 1917 
In 1918 . 
- 
Rate of increase: a 
In 1915 
8 
In 1916 
12 
In 1917 
26 
In 1918 
32 
"Rstimaterl normal 
26 
Number 
who fed. 
Number 
reporting. 
Number 
who fed. 
Number 
reporting. 
Supplemental feeding: 
Ordinary practice — 
To feed none 
18 
6 
18 
1 • 
1 - 
I 30 
1 " 
[ 63 
| 
To feed a few 
t 17 
1 
In 1917— 
Fed a few 
5 
9 
5 
8 
16 
1 
I 
- 
1. :: ::: 
I 
In 1918— 
Fed none 
Fed a few 
i ! 
1 
11 
Removed stock 
J 
a Based on number of breeding animals. 
Feed bucks 
SOME BENEFITS ARISING FROM FENCING THE RANGE AND CONTROL- 
LING THE METHODS OF USE. 
In contrast to the disadvantages of an open range are tne positive 
advantages that may result from individual control. Experience on 
privately owned ranches of large size, as well as experimental results 
obtained where all the factors were known and measured, show that 
in many ways the business may be better organized, rendered more 
productive, and relieved of many of its uncertainties by simply giving 
the present user a legal right to control the land' he now uses. 
A change in our laws which makes it' possible to grant to an indi- 
vidual, or a small group of individuals acting together, the privilege 
of grazing stock upon a specified portion of a National Forest, for a 
limited time and under definite regulations, has resulted in marked 
advantage to the users, even though the permit has only occasionally 
carried with it the privilege of fencing the land used. The establish- 
ment of a legal method whereby the arid grazing lands might be 
fenced in units of convenient size would revolutionize the business by 
removing the obstruction to its orderly development. Of course 
mere control of itself does not necessarily bring about the improved 
