Arizona republican., 1913-01-15

1 meat cheaper for him. those two l things are to protect the range or to 1 take down the tariff As for myself | care nothing for foreign meat ! would rather eat a piece of south | western grown and fattened meat than l all the prime meats of Argentina.
 There are six pertinent things : about the grazing lands in this sec ] ton which give il an advantage pos l slbiltty over any grazing section in the ! west. there are:
 | T. Practically unlimited area: ,. l the inexpensive land-you don't have ! to graze live stock on land that costs ] Sl00 Der acre: 9. the long growing i seasons; f. the diversified forage ! there are 300 species of native grasses l in Arizona alone and 800 species of ] forage plants of the clover variety; i there are 20 species of gramlna l grasses in the entire southwest and r. ! of these are in Arizona. ,. the mild i winter weather; 6. the freedom from disease
 The condition of the range today ! k that their carrying capacity is i from one half to one quarter of what ! 1t ought to be: the ranges are closely 1 graZed too continuously; there is no i seed production. In order tO make d 1 range pcrrcnial the seeds must be aI- i lowed to reproduce their kind or the ] ranges die out. they become cut up i because of the loss of sod: and they 1 become taken with weeds upon which i the cattle will not feed.
 The best range is the protected range upon which cattle are fed scientifically. Free grazing makes the i improvement of ranges impossible The range can come back if prop i crly treated Let me site you an i'm
 stance. The agricultural experiment 1 station of the University of Arizona 1 about nine years ago in order to
 study the range fenced about fifty ! square miles of land south of Tucson. , This range was barren when fenced. 7, but it increas"d 200 per cent in two 1 years and is now better than that. ITWcuty-fiVe years ago they cut hay all 1 over it and since about five wears at- ter the fencing hay cutting Was re i stunned. The range is also travelling. ! increasing in plcutitude and grasses l that had not been seen in years are 1 Springing up. The condition iS that the range is GOO per cent better than ! the adjoining unfencod land. The
 whole reason for this is that the grass | has been allowed to seed in the spring and fall. vet it can be ranged by the i cattle between Whilcs and it is not necessary to exclude stock from it a single year. The thing if it is not 1 oyerstocked. vet can carry more 1 stock than before it was fenced, and it is not open but regulated.
 Following Prof Thornber's address the discussion of the Lever Grazing bill was taken up.
 End of afternoon session.
 The Morning Session.
 The opening session of the conven- ton yesterday morning was devoted to the official welcome, the responses,
 and the address of the president of the
 association The auditorium of the School of Music was filled by the time the officers were ready to call the con vention to order and it was noticed
 there were a large number of ladies
 present in the gallery.
 President Jastro called the session
 to order by the simple method of tap ping upon the table and saying, The 1 sixteenth annual convention of the
 
 citation will now come to order. and we
 will be lead in prayer by Right Reyer- end Bishop Atwood of Arizona" Bishop
 Atwood called the convention to it's feet and all recited the Lords Prayer
 after which he delivered a short but eloquent invocation.
 MT. JastrO then introduced Governor
 Hunt of Arizona to deliver the official
 welcome Of the state to the visiting cattlemen.
 Governor Hunt said:
 Gentlemen of the National Live 1 Stock Association.
 The live stock industry of this country demands the best ability that | thousands of our leading citizens can l give it. and Arizona feels honorcd ! i'll having q national convention of that kind of men. In more than one
 way we are interested and pleased | oyer your selection of the meeting place, for there is much in Arizona ] both present and prospective. in re- ! gard to industrial progress which yoI ! will no doubt examine, and in doing
 so obtain pleasure only d little less than We feel in having you for our 1 guests. Your selection of Arizona for 1 a meeting place has significance and ] interest that are not lost on us. for ! il points to a better and wider under standing of the real Arizona in the 1 nation at large, and is assurance to | the people of this state that its l great resources will have hundreds of new witnesses whose standing in their l respective homes is high and in 1 fluential. We not only want to en- l joy yourselves here and hold the best ] convention on record, but to enter
 into the spirit of hope and confi- dcnce shown so st-ongly by all our l industries. To do this you have only
 to observe conditions and results of | enterprises at q stage of development that barely marks a real beginning. ! The live stock industry of Arizona
 has always been of great importance, and the records show that 1t is in
 crcasing in extent. New capital is be- ing put into it, many of your friends and neighbors have come. or are
 planning to come. and engage in the
 business and they will be taken care of in way that must prove the