Show U Utah a h Farmer f i t G Gi Gives 1 e V W I of Prominent Kamas Kantas Dairyman I FROM FRO TIlE UTAH UTA I U Howard toward known welt dairyman at lamas Kama is Convinced that sawdust bedding makes the ing tog cow pastures best beat type of at manure for tor I doubt that I would be beable able to stay In the dairy business If It I 1 had to depend on straw to bed bod down my herd of ot cows says I However I r have found that sawdust does an excellent Job Rockhill uses approximately tons of ot sawdust annually which he 1 la is 8 able ablo to secure at a nominal al cost During the fall fail winter and spring months while the herd herdIs herdla Is la stilt still in tho the corral he daily dally picks up the overnight droppings In his lounging sheds and then Ithen spreads more sawdust bedding He cleans the tho built up lIlt litter r out only after It has remained on the concrete floor of the sheds for tor at I least two years By then the sawdust and manure manure manure ma ma- nure has bas become a high nitrogen fertilizer which breaks up ur in fine particles when spread wIth with a manure ma nure spreader Straw bedding makes good manure manure ma ma- nure If it Is going to be uS used d on row crops but for tor pasture use doesn't begin to do dothe dothe the tho Job tho the sawdust wilt will this dairyman says was milking 77 head of grade Holsteins this fall with the milking herd number due to climb as more cows freshened tie Ho is assisted by his son son in law in-law Paul Anderson and son Byron Another Son eon Kendel wo works ks for forthe forthe forthe the Hyland dairy at Kamas and also takes an active interest In Inthe Inthe inthe the Rockhill dairy operation Tho The herd has long been on Last year butterfat production production pro pro- for tor cows was better than pounds per cow t f For many years yeara Rockhill depended defended depended de de- fended on abo about t four herd bulls for lor breeding purposes but four tour years ago switched over to artificIal artificial artificial arti arti- breeding He is not entirely entirely entirely en en- satisfied with the results he lie has bas been getting thus thua far from fram the practice While lie he would dislike returning returning return return- ing mg to the era Ora of ot maintaining herd beret bulls bulb on his bIt place and place and probably probably probably ably wont won't wont won't he maintains that from his hla observations cows on artificial breeding are considerably consider considerably ably more nervous Nervous Cows switching over to artificial arti artl breeding reports report he has found Bis fis herd becoming so nervous that he be has baa been forced to put ut up a sign on the front door of ot his milking barn barn forbidding strangers from enter I ing Ong Production may drop as I Iono much as pounds of ot milk In I ono oaf milking when unknown faces confront the tho cows at milking time he says I never had such a problem when I maintained herd bulls he comments I In discussing high production cows cows and and there are a number I in the tho and pound fat tat class in the Rockhill herd-Rockhill herd Rockhill Is con con- convinced that he would be bo better oft off to have 25 cows producing pounds of fat tat than to have cows producing pounds of fat the situation I would like to have bave on my place he says The labor would be considerably considerably considerably con con- reduced and the profits profIts profits prof prof- its probably higher He Is la working toward such a goal of course but obviously he still has quite a way to go Buthe But Buthe he be does docs have good cows judged by any standard In addition he has bas a good dairy plant For nine years now he has had a Ib bulk tank Al Although o gh he now w uses ses ial tal l l Roc Rockhill saves eaves all his bull calves pointing out that he ha b has S Sl plenty l nty of ot pa pasture ture and forage to f fled feed ed them out Profitable Feeding I With the tIne fine call calf rations available to the dairyman today It it is profitable to feed Out but bull buU calves them for tor beef beet later lat hat er or he lays This practice Is Important to him he lie explains and should be beto beto beto to most dairymen In the tho spring certain I certain 1 obligations usually usually ally face the tho dairyman and If U he has haa a little bunch of steers to market the tho Income can bo be ba a lot of ot help If you had to rent p pasture you couldn't do it but where a dairyman dairyman dairy dairy- man has hae plenty of pasture andI and I forage It works to his advantage Roc say says says' i This dairyman watches Jib his records records records rec rec- very closely He Insists that every heifer born on his place should when mature exceed her dam in production If a dairyman is going to make progress daughters must exceed their dams dame he and every dairyman should make snake this the major objective ve of his breeding breed ing lag program |