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The United States Range Live Stock Experiment Station

University of Montana

Abstract

Need for Information

The Great Plains country is comprised of millions of acres of land that must always be utilized for grazing purposes. The old days of open, free grazing land is past and a new condition in the range sections confronts the stockmen. The pioneers in the stock industry in the Northwest Plains country had evolved a system of livestock production that fitted the conditions. They had the choice of the country, abundance of grass, possession of the water, and a new virgin land in which to operate. These representatives of the old school of experienced producers are rapidly passing, and the industry finds itself not only confronted by a new generation of operators, but by new and wholly changed conditions.

Changed Conditions

The homestead laws of the country and purchase of railroad grant and State land has rapidly given the free grazing lands of the early days into the hands of private owners.