Excerpt from Increasing Forage Yields and Sheep Production on Intermountain Winter Ranges Most of the information on effects of grazing intensity on herbage production was obtained from a series of 20 fenced range pastures (fig. Sixteen of these were 320 acres in area and four were 240 acres. Six of the 20 pastures were grazed lightly, six moderately, and six heavily during either one or a combination of two grazing periods of the winter grazing season, as follows: Early, middle, late; early and middle; early and late; and middle and late winter. These periods were arbitrarily established by dividing the winter grazing season into three equal periods of about 50 days. Early winter included the period November 15 to January 3; middle winter, January 4 to February 23; and late winter, February 24 to April 10. The other two pastures were grazed in the middle winter period, one moderately and one at a heavy intensity similar to that on much of the general winter range. This was somewhat heavier than the grazing in the other heavily grazed pastures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.