Excerpt from The Grazing IndustryEven from the most optimistic viewpoint it is impossible to believe that any considerable proportion of the grazing lands can be irrigated with the present water supply and under the pres ent climatic conditions. Grazing must therefore remain the chief agricultural industry of the arid west. The economic importance of the grazing lands is sufficiently apparent from the following statistics taken from the census of 1900 concern ing the numbers of live stock which subsist in the arid and sem iarid States, viz.: beef cattle, dairy cows, horses, mules and sheep.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.