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<br />-, <br /> <br />pa;ys $1.00 per cwt. trucking 'freight to sell beans in Los Angeles. <br /> <br />There is a considerable but irregular local market for the sale of hay <br /> <br />and grains to larger local livestock operat.ors for supplemental feed <br /> <br />base, depending upon needs that vary from year to year. <br /> <br />Range for livestock is extremely limited. The Forest Service Ranges <br /> <br />are overgrazed, of very low carrying capacity and except for rights of <br /> <br />old standing no permit can be had. The Indian Serviceha.s secured con- <br /> <br />trol of other public land grazing rights. The Forest Service is colll]fl1.led <br /> <br />to further reduce permittable grazing and much more stringent range limita- <br /> <br />tions will be experienced. <br /> <br />The third limitation has been lack of water to follow any other farming <br />,~ <br /> <br />practice. The small proportion of successful farmers within the area <br /> <br />are usually found to combine grazing ,ange-rights with some advantage <br />of water supply. <br /> <br />-The 35 per cent of the farmers who are Just getting by usually have either <br /> <br />some range rights or some irrigation advantages, but not enough for su.ccess- <br /> <br />fulfarming with the reasonably good standards of living to which they <br /> <br />should be entitled. For the 35 per cent of the farmers who are in acute <br /> <br />distress their condition can be attributed to lack of both grazing priv- <br />'te <br />:!.leges and irrigation water, and linadequate land for dry-farm set-:-upSI and <br /> <br />there are of course in this class a percentage of farmers who lack farming <br /> <br />. , <br />, <br /> <br />ability, or managerial ability, or with other handicaps within the family. <br />