SURVEY OF RANGE
SOUGHTBYICKES
Carrying Capacity of Land
in East Oregon in Doubt
ONTARIO, Oct 5 (AP)—A request that a complete survey be
made to determine the carrying
capacity of eastern Oregon range
land went to Harold Ickes, secretary of the interior, today following a meeting of 50 stockmen and
hay growers called by the Western
Livestock Producers' association.
R. N. Stanfield, former United
States senator, told the group that
action of the district 3 advisory
board in reducing the legal number
of livestock on Malheur county,
range land by 30 per cent was I
"arbitrary" and said before the re-'
cent regulation Malheur's livestock population already was under
the land's carrying capacity.
Stanfield urged action to permit
more cattle "to feed fewer days,
rather than permit a smaller number to feed more days," and said
such a move would provide a
greater market for forage crop
farmers.
