. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Contribution from the Forest Service HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester. Washington, D. C. January 29, 1919 CHOPPED SOAPWEED AS EMERGENCY FEED FOR CATTLE ON SOUTHWESTERN RANGES. By 0. L, Foksling, Grazing Examiner. CONTENTS. The need of emergency feed 1 Soapweed as range forage 2 Cut soapweed as emergency feed 3 The collection of soapweed 7 The preparation of soapweed 9 Feeding the soapweed 10 The cost of soapweed feed 10 The cost of a maintenance ration 11 The time required for cattle to learn to cat soapweed 11 The amount of
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. Contribution from the Forest Service HENRY S. GRAVES, Forester. Washington, D. C. January 29, 1919 CHOPPED SOAPWEED AS EMERGENCY FEED FOR CATTLE ON SOUTHWESTERN RANGES. By 0. L, Foksling, Grazing Examiner. CONTENTS. The need of emergency feed 1 Soapweed as range forage 2 Cut soapweed as emergency feed 3 The collection of soapweed 7 The preparation of soapweed 9 Feeding the soapweed 10 The cost of soapweed feed 10 The cost of a maintenance ration 11 The time required for cattle to learn to cat soapweed 11 The amount of soapweed cattle will eat 12 111 effects from eating soapweed 12 Fattening on soapweed and cottonseed 13 Growth habits of soapweed 13 Necessity for conservative, selective 15 Use of related species 17 Summary 17 THE NEED OF EMERGENCY FEED. Heavy losses of stock resulting from long periods of drought are the greatest handicap of the stock industry on the ranges of the Southwest. Such droughts have occurred at intervals of from. 3 to 10 years. When these droughts continue for more than a year the situation becomes critical because of lack of range forage or other available feed. Cottonseed products serve well as supplemental feed in times when enough range forage is available to provide the necessary roughage. During prolonged droughts like the present one, which began early in 1916 and continues unbroken at the present time (June 15, 1918), the range forage crop may be so- small as to require other roughage as well as concentrated feeds. The problem may be solved in part of the less arid regions by raising fodder crops by dry farming. The ranges where this is practicable at present, however, are not extensive. On a few ranges, adjacent to irrigated districts, the necessary emergency feeds might be furnished by crops from such irrigated areas; but this supply at 81176°—19—Bull. 745 1. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page image
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