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Show I On Utah County Farms I With The Extension Agent Stockmnn of the state are invited in-vited to attend the field day, Dir-rector Dir-rector Bailey said. STATK COI.I.EfiE SKTS HATE FOR STOCKMKN MEET Stockmen Days at the Utah State Agricultural college have heen set for August 3 and 4, according to Dean E. J. Maynard. Plans are now being laid, by the college officials to accommodate a large group of livestock feeders and breeders from the slate inter-mountain inter-mountain region. Forty fat steers that started on feed last November and are now ready for market, will be on display. dis-play. They will be used to demonstrate demon-strate the relative efficiency of some common Utah fattening feeds including barley, wet and dry beet pulp, beet molasses, corn silage and alfalfa hay. FOREST STATION TO SHOW KESCl.TS OF F.XI'Eltl.MENTS flrrat Basin Blanch of the Inter-niountain Inter-niountain Forest and Range Ex-priimrnt Ex-priimrnt Station will be held August 7 and 8 at the station located on the Manti national forest, for-est, 10 miles ea.st of F,phraim, in cooperation with the Utah Extension Ex-tension Service, according to R. W. Bailey, director of the station and Director William Peterson of the Utah State Agricultural College. Col-lege. The purpose of this meeting is to give livestock men and others inleresled in range use an op-porlunily op-porlunily to view the results on the ground of experiments being conducted at this station. Among the projects to be reviewed are: range improvement by natural levegetation nnd artificial rcsced-ing, rcsced-ing, forage value of native range )l;mts and the time of carbo-ltvdifite carbo-ltvdifite food storacre. climate and its effects on plant growth, and relation of grazing and plant cover cov-er to watershed protection. The group will assemble at Fphraim at 8 a. m. August 7 and will then proceed up the mountain under direction stopping at intervals in-tervals to Inspect the research projects. In the evening a camp-fire camp-fire meeting will be held, at which time topics of general interest t-j livestock men and range men will be discussed. The Utah Woolgrower's association associ-ation will hold its annual runnier run-nier meetings on the station grounds the morning of August 8. Visitors are invited to spend the night of August 7 at the station. A limited number of tents and camp beds will be available, but all who can conveniently do so should bring their camp' beds or plan to return to Ephraim for the night. Facilities for meals will be provided at the station. Discussions on some of the present-day range cattle problems and recommendations for their solution so-lution will be conducted by prominent promi-nent stockmen. A cattle judging contest will be hold for the stockmen stock-men with tight classes of cattle from the college herds of Hereford Here-ford and shorthorns. , The program for the second day will be given over, to the sheepmen. sheep-men. Demonstrations will be conducted con-ducted in the new sheep barn showing the breeds of economic importance in the west. A thorough discussion of the correct cor-rect type and conformation , of the Rambouillet is being planned with view of crystallizing the opinion of leading Rambouillet breeders regarding the correct type that should be developed. The demonstration will be followed fol-lowed by a wool judging contest and a domonstration in the selection selec-tion of Tarns for herd sires. Discussions Dis-cussions will also be conducted on livestock and wool -marketing problems. Tents will be supplied by the college for those who wish to remain re-main on the campus during the night of August 3. AAA PAYS UTAH ly. MILLION IN ' BENEFIT CHUCKS Utah farmers have received: $4,-220,386.29 $4,-220,386.29 in benefit payments from the Agricultural Adjustment administration, according to Director Di-rector William Peterson of the Utah State Agricultural college. These payments, which extended ex-tended over a period from May 12. 1933 to June 1, 1K36, included $1,830,888.96 for .farmers who signed wheat control contracts, $278,067.95 . for those who ' complied com-plied with the corn-hog program, and $2,111,428.38 fo sugar beet growers .who .'complied. - h Utah county farmers received a total of $541,828,78. of which $181,418.95 was for wheat contracts: con-tracts: $31,164.49 for corn-hog agreements and $329,245.34 to sugar beet growers. |