Book/Printed Material Range management in the state of Washington.
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Image 1 of Range management in the state of Washington. m U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY— BULLETIN NO. 75. B. T. GALLOWAY, Chief Vf -Bureau, RANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. J. S. COTTON, Assistant in Range…
- Contributor: Cotton, J. S.
- Date: 1905
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Image 7 of Range management in the state of Washington. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/rangemanagementiOOcott
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Image 10 of Range management in the state of Washington. Bui. 75, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate I. Fig. 1 .—Mountain Meadow where Timothy was Seeded in the Autumn of 1902. Fig. 2.— Same Plot Shown in…
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Image 11 of Range management in the state of Washington. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY— BULLETIN NO. 75. B. T. GALLOWAY, Chief of Bureau RANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. /^c COTTON, i Assistant in Range Investigations,…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 12 of Range management in the state of Washington. SIS yd. H6T BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY. B. T. GALLOWAY, Pathologist and Physiologist, and Chief of Bureau. VEGETABLE PATHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS. Albert F. Woods, Pathologist and Physiologist in Charge, Acting Chief…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 13 of Range management in the state of Washington. LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Plant Industry, Office of the Chief, Washington, D. C, February 24, 1905. Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith the manuscript…
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Image 15 of Range management in the state of Washington. PREFACE. In the spring of 1901 cooperative arrangements were entered into between the United States Department of Agriculture and the Agri- cultural Experiment Station of the State of Washington for the conduct…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 17 of Range management in the state of Washington. CONTENTS. Page. Introduction 11 Range improvements 13 Winter pastures 13 Semiarid lands 15 Mountain grazing areas 17 Protection of pastures 20 Alternation of pastures 23 Using pastures before ground is settled in…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 19 of Range management in the state of Washington. ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. Plate I. Range improvement by reseeding. Fig. 1. Mountain meadow where timothy was seeded in the autumn of 1902. Fig. 2.— Same plot shown in figure 1 two years later,…
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Image 21 of Range management in the state of Washington. B. P. I.— 153. G. F. P. I.— 110. RANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. INTRODUCTION. Owing to the greatly lowered carrying capacity of ranges in the State of Washington, investigations…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 22 of Range management in the state of Washington. 12 RANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. numbers of range horses that were alloAved to run at will throughout the entire year, and thus continue their depredations, this system would undoubtedly…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 23 of Range management in the state of Washington. RANGE IMPROVEMENTS. 13 this region. The strong opposition of the cattlemen, together with the long feeding season, has also prevented sheep from gaining an entrance to any appreciable extent. Again, the cattlemen…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 24 of Range management in the state of Washington. 14 RANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. are going to seed will in all probability be the only satisfactory method of restoration. This will not be at all difficult, for, owing…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 25 of Range management in the state of Washington. SEMI ARID LANDS. 15 woolly wheat-grass (Ayropyron sv.bvillosum), have become consider- ably more abundant each season. By the season of 1904 these grasses had become so abundant that it seems fair to…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 26 of Range management in the state of Washington. 16 RANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. At the present time there are large areas (see PL III, fig. 1) where all of the native grasses, except June grass (Poa sandbergii)…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 27 of Range management in the state of Washington. MOUNTAIN GRAZING AREAS. 17 present time taking its place in those areas where overgrazing is going on. Experiments to determine this point will be made during 1905. The same thing can be…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 28 of Range management in the state of Washington. 18 RANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. of feed, but the carrying capacity of these places has been greatly reduced by the continual tramping of stock and consequent packing of the…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 29 of Range management in the state of Washington. MOUNTAIN GRAZING AREAS. 19 white clover, and mountain brome-grass (Bromus marginatus). These were seeded in plots of approximately 5 acres each. On half of each of these plots the seed was broadcasted…
- Contributor: Cotton, J. S.
- Date: 1905
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Image 30 of Range management in the state of Washington. 20 RANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. better results will be obtained, if the cost is not too great, by using a disk harrow. In many cases it is quite possible…
- Contributor: Cotton, J. S.
- Date: 1905
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Image 31 of Range management in the state of Washington. PROTECTION OF PASTURES. 21 Many of the stockmen, especially cattlemen, seem to think that when they have excluded the outside stock, sheep in particular, from their land, it will carry whatever stock…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 32 of Range management in the state of Washington. 22 RANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. carry, being very sure not to overestimate, which he is almost certain to do. In making this estimate he must not base it on…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 33 of Range management in the state of Washington. ALTEENATION OF PASTURES. 23 compared with the failure or poverty of the many. Such men do not stock nearly up to the maximum. Owning their own ranges, and therefore not having to…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 34 of Range management in the state of Washington. 24 EANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. of the important steps in the improvement of the ranges of that State. In eastern Washington some of the more successful stockmen use this…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 35 of Range management in the state of Washington. INDEX OF GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. Agropyron spicatum (Bunch wheat- grass), 15, 16, 17. subvillosum Woolly wheat- grass), 15. Agrostis alba (Redtop), 18, 19, 20. Alfalfa (Medicago sativa), 16. Alsike clover (Trifolium…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 36 of Range management in the state of Washington. 26 EANGE MANAGEMENT IN THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. Phleum alpinum (Mountain timothy), 17. pratense Timothy 18, 19, 20. Pine-grass {Calamagrostis suksdorfii), 19. Poa compressa (Canadian bluegrass), 19. pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass). 18, 19.…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 37 of Range management in the state of Washington. PLATES. 27
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Image 38 of Range management in the state of Washington. DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. Plate I. Frontispiece. Range improvement by reseeding. Fig. 1. Mountain meadow where timotby was seeded in the autumn of 1902. The prevailing vegetation in the foreground is mountain clover…
- Contributor: Cotton, J. S.
- Date: 1905
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Image 39 of Range management in the state of Washington. Bui. 75 Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate II. Fig. 1 .—Typical Scab Land. Fig. 2.— A Mountain Meadow. TYPES OF PERMANENT RANGE LAND NOT ADAPTED TO OTHER…
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- Date: 1905
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Image 40 of Range management in the state of Washington.
- Contributor: Cotton, J. S.
- Date: 1905