Range Improvement in Arizona

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Excerpt from Range Improvement in Arizona: Cooperative Experiments With the Arizona Experiment StationOn all the W'estern stock ranges which the writer has visited there have existed many small areas in cultivated fields, unused pastures, fenced railroad rights of way, and Similar situations which are in their virgin state or-have so far recovered from overstocking as to bear testimony to the original productivity of the soil. Things are far different in large areas of southern Arizona. Here unused pas-1 tures are very rare, cultivated fields are fewer in number, and the destruction is so complete that in many localities even the railroad right of way has recovered but little in three or four years' time. On the river bottoms a few indications of luxuriant growths of grass are found, but in nearly every case, even in such favored localities, there is little aside from this evidence, the actual original conditions being very much modified. It would be but fair to state, however, that the season in which the region was first Visited was an unfavorable one, being at the close of an exceedingly long dry period, when even evi dence of forage was scanty.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.