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Show Bateman Tells How to Increase Dairy Production There is no doubt that dairy production in the state can be increased the 13 percent asked by the government to meet the needs of national emergency, according to George Q. Bateman, superintendent superin-tendent of the Dairy Experimental Farm and Research Assistant professor pro-fessor of Utah Agricultural Experiment Ex-periment Station. "This increase," Bateman said, "will come first by an increase in the number of cows milked, and second through improved methods of feeding and management of the low producting dairy herds of the state." The dairy cows of the state, the Dairy Superintendent explained, have the potential ability to produce pro-duce more than the 62 million additional pounds provided they are fed and cared for properly. Bateman then listed three procedures pro-cedures which would increase the Utah dairy production: 1. dairy cows must be fed all the roughage they will consume during the winter months, 2. pastures must produce more feed, and. 3. cows producing in excess of 0.8 of a pound of butterfat per day should be fed grain according to production. produc-tion. Increased pasture may be accomplished accom-plished by use of fertilizers," Bateman averred. "The application of 200 pounds of treble superphosphate superphos-phate per acre in the fall and 10 tons of manure, containing the! liquid portion, during the winter months increased the feed production produc-tion at the dairy experiment farm as much as 50 percent per year for a three year period." Bateman then cited experiments whereby cows were fed the proper pro-per food rations and increased production of 3,928 pounds of milk resulted. This acrease amounted to approximately 44 percent. "An increase in milk production of 24 percent on 75,000 average Utah cows producing 5000 psunds average the research specialist stated, "would amount to a total of 100 million pounds of milk. This would exceed the amount required re-quired by 38 millicn pounds". He said the production can be increased the amount required through improved methods in feeding, improvement in the care and management of pastures, by feeding high producing cows gram according to production, and by increasing the number of cows milked. |