death during the winter

death during the winter months. Livestock with neck chains for identification can also become entangled in brush or tree tops and not be located until it is too late. It is really worth the risk to allow high value livestock to roam farm woodland areas? Woodland makes poor pasture land with little nutrition in the browse found there. Animals will not gain on woodland pasture and in most cases they will barely hold their weight. Trees also suffer when animals use woodland areas. Constant rubbing and barking of the trees near ground level soon open the way for insect and disease attack. Forfest soils become severly compacted, leaf litter is destroyed and water runoff is increased ofton causing a severe soil erosion problem to develop over a period of time. Any way you look at it woodland grazing is bad business. It is estimated that there are 8,111 acres of woodland in Rappahannock County in need of fencing to protect them from livestock grazing. Forester Vernam also reports that Federal cost shar-j ing assistance is available! through the Rappahannock County Agriculture Conserva-1 tion Program to erect satisfactory fencing to protect farm woodland areas from livestock grazing. Cost sharing amounts to about 65 percet of the total cost of doing a fencing project. Sign up for cost sharing; assistance for woodland fenc-i ing as well as other forestry, projects and farm practices is I now taking place at the ASC' Office in Washington for the 1968 ACP Program. Mr. James W. Coates, Office Manager, will be most pleased to assist landowners in signing up for forestry fencing projects. Forester Vernam urges landowners to fence farm woodlands now to protect livestock trees, soil and water.