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Show DAIRY CATTLE ON DRY FARM Government Begins Study of Dairying and Crop Possibilities In Southwest. (Prepared by the United Slate Department of Attrlculture.) In order to study the possibilities f dnirylng and to develop better methods meth-ods of crop utilization In the dry-tarming dry-tarming regions of the Southwest, the 5ureau of animal Industry of the Untied Unt-ied States Department of Agriculture lias established a herd of purebred ialry cattle on a farm In the seml-irld seml-irld district of northwestern Oklahoma. Okla-homa. The bureau of plant ; Industry las had a farm here near the town of Woodward for many years, and has studied such crops as grain sorghums, oroom corn, forage sorghums, cowpeas, ilfalfa, rye for the prevention of soil 1 1 t - r f " AC. ? i " "i l x " , i r " j ! J eighing Out the Proper Rations q Requires But Little Time. plowing, and winter wheat for pasture. From now on the farm will be used :o-operatlvely by the bureau of plant j ndustry and the bureau of animal industry. in-dustry. This Is considered a neces-Sary neces-Sary combination, as most of the feeds . rown there are of the kind that must 3e fed largely to live stock. SThe dairy division hopes to determine deter-mine whether or not it Is desirable to produce live stock under those dry-and dry-and conditions, and to grow the crops ' -vbich will give the largest returns per icre in terms of milk or cream. The Question is not one of crop tonnage, jut of the amount of finished dairy goroducts that can be turned out. The utvork here is not designed to discover Ijhe best practices for any particular itate, but to study practices that will e desirable In the large dry-land re-i, re-i, jions where only certain crops can be nTwn. The people of this little Oklahoma -down have shown great enthusiasm in regard to the Investigations that the 1, lepartment of agriculture contemplates. contem-plates. The town purchased 100 acres idjoining the old government farm. ind turned It over free to the govern-uent govern-uent for a period of U'J years. The fOters of the town were almost unaui-cmous unaui-cmous In favor of this donation. 0 The cattle that are being used on Jlils farm are also In the country-wide 1 ireedlng project being conducted by ihe dairy division and bulls have been cent from the government farm at Jeltsvllle, Md. In this breeding project, ,vhich now Includes more than 800 ia;ows and 50 bulls, It Is hoped to de- fermlne what are the best methods of ukreedlng for the improvement of cat- sle. The large scale of this Investiga-selon Investiga-selon should make the results particu-surly particu-surly valuable, i I |