Then, as the storm gathered, they remembered the shelter which man had provided for them, and the abundant forage it contained.
For two days, with occasional stops to forage or to sleep, the angry grizzly had travelled southward, heading towards the lonely peak of White Face.
He felt that in arranging the consumption of forage his own unit had not been favoured with the same reduction as ours, in fact accused me of putting upon his three horses to save my own.
Another council of war was held, and it was decided that an average of thirteen miles a day must be done at all costs, and that another sack of forage should be dumped here, putting the ponies on short rations later, if necessary.
The main discussion centred round the amount of forage to be taken on from here, while the state of the ponies, the amount they could pull and the distance they could go had to be taken into consideration.
The Gothic cavalry had been detached to forage in the adjacent country; and Fritigern still continued to practise his customary arts.
When the forage round a camp of Tartars is almost consumed, they slaughter the greatest part of their cattle, and preserve the flesh, either smoked, or dried in the sun.
The accumulation of reserve stores was therefore not an easy task, and to get forage ahead a few days was well-nigh impossible, unless that brought from the North was supplemented by what we could gather from the country.
The Indians evidently had selected this island for their temporary abode, on account of the grass with which portions of it were covered, the mainland being very dry and furnishing but little forage for stock.
Eight miles further on we camped for the night on the banks of the North Platte River, where, finding clear water and good forage for stock, we planned a day of rest.
Tell them to put plenty of forage before the horses, and not to put the bridles in their mouths until the last thing.
Let each pour four or five feeds of corn into hisforage bag.
However, he occupied the country for a considerable distance beyond the frontier, subsisting his army upon the provisions andforage collected by his cavalry in the villages and small towns.
This year they reported that the cattle had eaten the foragedown to the roots.
In the back country where the mountains were high and the wilderness unbroken, they depended for forage on the grasses of the mountain meadows.
Far and wide through the wooded and brushy foothills roamed the cattle, seeking the forage of the winter range that a summer's absence in the high mountains had saved for them.
The forage and water resources of the public domain have been subject to similar abuse.
The damages cover not only the merchantable timber and forage destroyed, but damages are also collected for young, immature growth, which at first thought might seem to have little or no value.
The Use of Forageand Water Resources Was Regulated.
It is often necessary for the complete and economical use of the forage on a National Forest to cooperate with the local stockmen to develop range by constructing improvements.
By rotation grazing, that is, permitting the stock to feed first on one area and then on another, the grasses and forage plants are allowed to recuperate from the effect of grazing and allowed to reproduce.
But traveling, temporary camping, hunting, surveying, or prospecting may be carried on without permit, and camp wood and forage for stock used in connection with such activities may be taken free of charge.
The range was subject to considerable abuse because it was used very early in the spring before the forage was mature, or too late in the fall, which prevented the forage from ripening its seed and reproducing for the next season.
Land is often cultivated for the production of forage crops and fences are built to insure necessary pasturage for live stock used by the Forest officers in their work.
The Government owned the land and the forage but it had no organization in the field to regulate the use of it.
The apportionment among the States is based on the area of National Forest lands in each State and the estimated value of the timber and forage resources which the Forests contain.
All intensive forage and range experiments are conducted at the Great Basin Experiment Station on the Manti National Forest.
You will see to it that the water, wood, and forage of the reserves are conserved and wisely used for the benefit of the home builder first of all, upon whom depends the best permanent use of lands and resources alike.
In his jaunty forage cap and scarlet jacket he was one to catch and hold the eye by reason of his engaging personality.
The horse that our guide had bought at Kiachta, and whose forage of hay and oats was borne by the camels, died at the end of a week, and another, we had bought of the Mongols we met accidentally on our way, shared the same fate.
Cultivated for forage crops and for enriching soils; honey yield good; fair quality, light color.
Cultivated forforage crops and for enriching soils.
An extensively cultivated forage plant which has long been an introduced plant in Southern and Western Texas.
For some time, during inaction, they had been getting good forage and pasturage.
Akbar had a new idea: he caused large flocks of sheep to be driven over the distant forage grounds.
The expeditions after foragebrought on what was called the Grass Fight.
Forage too is becoming scarce in the camp, and the baggage horses are dying.
In this place, were it our interest to do so, we can hold out no longer, the scarcity of corn andforage forbid that.
All we can do is to forage in such shops as are open, and you'll have to take the office of commissary at once.
My foragecap set down over my head and rested on my ears.
That forage cap's too large, but you can put paper in the lining.
There were services in camp in such organizations as had ministers of the gospel with them, but many regiments were without chaplains, and had to forage for religious food, if they had any.
If you were a Union man you could get pay for the forage we were sent to secure.
Astragalus nuttallianus, according to Smith,[146] is a highly nutritiousforage plant in spring.
These terms describing the alleged symptoms of "locoism" might occur in well recognized diseases resulting from brain lesions, which latter occur in so-called forage poisoning and poisoning from foul drinking water, etc.
The cavalry having neither food nor forage rode off by hundreds every day, and in a week but two thousand out of his six thousand horse remained with him.
The honey is somewhat acrid and crystallizes soon, yet the plant, where abundant, is of much importance to the bees and the bee keeper in case other forage is scant at the time.
It is a perennial leguminous plant, rather hardy, an excellent forage crop, and particularly valuable for milch cows.
In portions of southern Europe sulla clover is a most important forage crop for farm stock as well as for honey bees.
These bees were, of course, unable to foragewestward from the apiary, hence had but half "a field.
Bokhara=, or =sweet clover=, is in some sections of the country considered a valuable forage crop.
Sacaline=, a forage and ornamental plant of recent introduction, is a great favorite with bees.
Russian or hairy vetch= is a hardy leguminous plant of great value for forage and use in green manuring.
He is the terror of all absentees, stragglers, and deserters, and of all commanding officers who are unable to produce for his inspection the number of horses they have been drawing forage for.
M'Carthy and I got out before crossing to forage at some huts close by.
At this time forage difficulties were acute, but there had been close organisation to grow fodder in Army and Line of Communication areas, and our animals always had a decent ration.
In an earlier chapter I have given the facts about the forage ration.
It was not possible to have two views about the need of economy when you had to forage the battlefield for old bits of metal and rags.
I could hear the Federal forage wagons lumbering along the pike, and the Federals actually came into the field, which was a very large one, and gathered corn.
We were provided with some rations; but after traveling some distance, we found that it would be necessary to forage upon the country.
